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Word Meanings - BOTCHERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bungling; awkward.

Related words: (words related to BOTCHERLY)

  • AWKWARD SQUAD
    A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.
  • BUNGLING
    Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.
  • BUNGLER
    A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
  • BUNGLE
    To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
  • BUNGLINGLY
    Clumsily; awkwardly.
  • AWKWARD
    1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy.

 

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