See bungle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; and have so repeated to them (some of the Chiefs here) half an hour ago.",
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"text": "[…] talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries.",
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"text": "Physis is nothing else but the vegetable World, the Universall comprehension of Spermaticall life dispersed throughout. […] For Physis (as I said) is not the divine Understanding it self, but is as if you should conceive, an Artificers imagination separate from the Artificer, and left alone to work by it self without animadversion. Hence Physis or Nature is sometimes puzzeld and bungells in ill disposed matter, because its power is not absolute and omnipotent.",
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"text": "[T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. \"Would any one believe this?\" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. \"I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!\"",
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"ref": "1653, Henry More, chapter XII, in An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, book I, page 102:",
"text": "VVherefore this Religious affection vvhich nature has implanted, and as ſtrongly rooted in Man as the feare of death or the love of vvomen, vvould be the moſt enormous ſlip or bungle ſhe could commit, ſo that ſhe vvould ſo ſhamefully faile in the laſt Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man, that inſtead of a Plaudite ſhe vvould deſerve to be hiſſed off the Stage.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 200:",
"text": "The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1888, Henry Lawson, United Division (essay):",
"text": "The Soudan bungle was born partly of sentimental loyalty and partly of the aforementioned jealousy existing between the colonies, and now at a time when the colonies should club closer together our Government is doing all they can to widen the breach by trying to pass a bill enabling New South Wales to monopolise the name \"Australia\".",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder."
],
"links": [
[
"botched",
"botched#Adjective"
],
[
"incompetently",
"incompetently"
],
[
"handled",
"handled#Adjective"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
],
[
"blunder",
"blunder#Noun"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "botch"
},
{
"word": "muddle"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌŋɡəl"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "botched or incompetently handled action or situation — see also blunder",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fušeřina"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "botched or incompetently handled action or situation — see also blunder",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fušerství"
}
],
"word": "bungle"
}
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