an embarrassing mistake
Used in a Sentence
bungle
How to use bungle in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for bungle.
Editorial note
"C doesn't bungle such basic things as equality checks, for instance.
Examples12
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
an embarrassing mistake
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of bungle gathered in one view.
make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bungle.
noun
an embarrassing mistake
verb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
See also: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, muff, blow, flub, spoil, fluff, bollix, bollocks
verb
spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
Example sentences
"C doesn't bungle such basic things as equality checks, for instance.
[1] If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
I had no doubt that HP would bungle that acquisition, but I didn't think they'd do it so spectacularly.
You're inevitably going to insert a line long enough to screw up your alignment, and now you'll have to bungle your diff.
The fact that you can bungle WebRTC or SSL/TLS implementation doesn't make it useless for transport security.
For instance, people frequently bungle the design of 10-table databases, so perhaps there are dragons in the 100s of tables.
The Guardian wouldn't have had any documents to bungle the release of if Manning hadn't released them in the first place.
I remember what scared me to death with C++ when I was using it with frequency was the potential to end-up with these horrible inheritance trees that could really bungle a project in so many ways.
Why they want to do this is questionable, since Bill Clinton was able to use the shutdown in his era to neutralize the republican "revolution" in the Congress in the 90s. I figure the republicans are betting that Obama's crew will bungle their response, since they seem to lack competence and cohesion.
People often bungle their firewall rules because they don't know any better, but Amazon continuing to willfully fuck up TCP for all of AWS is a pretty large issue for the functioning of the net at large.
And in any case, Japan has such a poor record on immigration policy that I confidently expect them to bungle this one, too. Look at the failure of their recent "skilled migrants" program, or their disastrous program to recruit trained Philippino nursing staff, or the abuse and corruption in the "trainee worker" program, or ... I could go on.
How blind do you have to be to not anticipate that mobile will be huge for Twitter, a service originally engineered around being used over SMS?Watching Twitter bungle issue after issue over the years gives the distinct impression that Twitter is successful in spite of their executive management, not because of it.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use bungle in a sentence?
"C doesn't bungle such basic things as equality checks, for instance.
What does bungle mean?
an embarrassing mistake
What part of speech is bungle?
bungle is commonly used as noun, verb.