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bungling, adj.
more info lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
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bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed

sample sentences

"a bumbling mechanic"
"a bungling performance"
"ham-handed governmental interference"
"could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
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more info showing lack of skill or aptitude
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bungling clumsy fumbling incompetent

sample sentences

"a bungling workman"
"did a clumsy job"
"his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
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