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.