For a bungler like me, I think I really did my best.
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Bungler
Synonyms for "bungler" (61 found)
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39 translations across 20 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- barroer noun (one who makes mistakes)
- barroera noun (one who makes mistakes)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 笨手笨腳 /笨手笨脚 noun (one who makes mistakes)
- 糊塗蟲 /糊涂虫 noun (one who makes mistakes)
Czech
4 entries- fušer noun (one who makes mistakes)
- nešika noun (one who makes mistakes)
- packal noun (one who makes mistakes)
- vrták noun (one who makes mistakes)
Dutch
1 entries- stumper noun (one who makes mistakes)
Esperanto
2 entries- fuŝisto noun (one who makes mistakes)
- fuŝulo noun (one who makes mistakes)
Finnish
1 entries- tunari noun (one who makes mistakes)
French
2 entries- bousilleur noun (one who makes mistakes)
- bousilleuse noun (one who makes mistakes)
German
3 entries- Pfuscher noun (one who makes mistakes)
- Pfuscherin noun (one who makes mistakes)
- Stümper noun (one who makes mistakes)
Irish
1 entries- útamálaí noun (one who makes mistakes)
Japanese
2 entries- へぼ noun (one who makes mistakes)
- 不器用者 noun (one who makes mistakes)
Macedonian
2 entries- нека́дарник noun (one who makes mistakes)
- у́тман noun (one who makes mistakes)
Māori
1 entries- ninipa noun (one who makes mistakes)
Norman
1 entries- boucranneux noun (one who makes mistakes)
Russian
4 entries- бе́столочь noun (one who makes mistakes)
- о́лух noun (one who makes mistakes)
- простофи́ля noun (one who makes mistakes)
- рази́ня noun (one who makes mistakes)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- šeprtlja noun (one who makes mistakes)
Spanish
1 entries- torpe noun (one who makes mistakes)
Swedish
2 entries- klant noun (one who makes mistakes)
- klåpare noun (one who makes mistakes)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бракоро́б noun (one who makes mistakes)
Welsh
2 entries- bwngler noun (one who makes mistakes)
- bwnglerwr noun (one who makes mistakes)
Yiddish
2 entries- פּאַרטאַטש noun (one who makes mistakes)
- שלימיל noun (one who makes mistakes)
Sample sentences
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"Have you read Gaboriau's works?" I asked. "Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective?" Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically. "Lecoq was a miserable bungler," he said, in an angry voice; "he had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy. That book made me positively ill."
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I'm a bungler.
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Everyone knows whether you are an artist or a bungler.
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