Bungle in a sentence as a noun

"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.

Bungle in a sentence as a verb

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 **** 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.

Bungle definitions

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!"