fumbling


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Synonyms for fumbling

showing lack of skill or aptitude

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Here again," added Master Jacques, fumbling afresh in his pouch, "is something that we have found at Marc Cenaine's house."
Sam Tumilty completed a short pass to his brother Scott, who raced up the left side before fumbling at the 1.
And finally, when you're hiking into and out of your stand site in the daylight, a fluke shot opportunity may present itself and you can react with no fumbling around.
"UPA left fumbling institutions, and therefore a bitter pill is much needed.
She told the court: "I asKed what she (her friend) wanted to do about it (the alleged fumbling) but felt nobody would really believe what happened.
Jake Johnson, the shambolic, fumbling flatmate from TV's New Girl, plays a shambolic, fumbling journalist in a wilfully amateurish lo-fi 'Mumblecore' flick featuring a cast of pasty-faced bedheads which strives for realism by utilising overlapping dialogue.
JAKE Johnson, the shambolic, fumbling flatmate from TV's New Girl, plays a shambolic, fumbling journalist in the latest movie from the Mumblecore "manifesto".
Choking, fumbling, coughing, stumbling But they still marched.
Barner got off to an inauspicious start, fumbling on his first carry.
ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR TWIST TIES AND CUSTOMERS FUMBLING TO OPEN PRODUCE BAGS, Cerritos, Calif.-based Spectrum Bags, Inc.
It was dark, the plane was pitching and people were frantically fumbling in the seat pocket for the bag.
Sidney Hall brings readers his third anthology of poetry with "Fumbling in the Light".
Tired of fumbling for your house key and checking each one on your key ring in the dark, late at night, in the rain, with your arms full of packages or groceries?