bungling

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• Tatum and Hill reunite in 22 Jump Street as Jenko and Schmidt, hapless cops who go undercover as students to bungle a drug ring.

• The Yankees have been paying for this $270 million bungle—enabled by some savvy advice from Goldman Sachs—ever since.

• Every Senator who voted for Obamacare is accused of being the 60th vote, but few managed to bungle the process as badly as Nelson.

• The Bergamots do have a beautiful life—a life they bungle out of fear, vanity, desperation, and love.

• It was watching the military bungle one such investigation that eventually caused Jacob to leave the service.

• I never knew him bungle over a rope or make a bad slip, and it was simply a pleasure to see him steer.

• In practically all crimes attempted by scientists they bungle their jobs completely.

• I am sure the snarling Beasts could never bungle Life as men do, darling, Who half know.

• Not very seriously, I am afraid, lamented Nathalie, judging from the bungle I made in trying to learn that square knot.

• "I'm afraid I shall make a worse bungle of it than I did of the toast," he said, as he saw her folding her hands with delight.