"fumbling" in the verb sense

1. grope, fumble

feel about uncertainly or blindly

"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

2. fumble, blunder

make one's way clumsily or blindly

"He fumbled towards the door"

3. fumble

handle clumsily

4. botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

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"

5. fumble

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

"fumble a grounder"

"fumbling" in the adjective sense

1. bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent

showing lack of skill or aptitude

"a bungling workman"

"did a clumsy job"

"his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

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