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fumbledadjective showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation)my future father-in-law shook his head over my fumbled attempt to compliment his daughter awkward, botched, bungling, clumsy, inept, inexpert, maladroit amateur, amateurish, crude, green, incompetent, ineffectual, inefficient, inexperienced, unpolished, unprofessional, unskilled, unskillfulcareless, sloppy, tacky, tactless, undiplomaticill-advised, ineffective, ineffectual, misdirected, misguided adroit, deft, dexterous(also dextrous), facile able, accomplished, adept, capable, clever, competent, consummate, crackerjack, expert, masterful, masterly, polished, professional, proficient, skilled, skillful, talenteddiplomatic, easy, effortless, gracious, smooth, tactful to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful wayher assistant fumbled the party plans by getting the time wrong on the invitations blew, bobbled, boggled, bollixed (up), booted, botched, buggered (up), bumbled, bungled, butchered, dubbed, flubbed, fluffed, foozled, fouled up, goofed (up), loused up, mangled, messed (up), mucked up, muffed, murdered, screwed up blundered, gummed (up), muddled, piffledblemished, blighted, damaged, flawed, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, marred, mutilated, ruined, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt), vitiateddestroyed, wreckedmishandled, mismanaged ameliorated, bettered, enhanced, helped, improved, meliorated, rectified, refined, reformed, remedieddoctored, fixed, patched, reconditioned, renovated, repaired, revamped to search for something blindly or uncertainlythe librarian fumbled for the light switch as she entered the dark room felt, fished, groped, scrabbled grabbledcast about, hunted, looked, reached, sought (out)captured, clutched, corralled, got, grabbed, nabbed, nailed, seized, snatchedcombed, dredged, dug (through), raked, ransacked, rifled, rummaged, scoured to make a mistakejust when it looked like he was going to get away with the ruse, he fumbled blundered, boobed(British), erred, flubbed, fluffed, fouled up, goofed (up), loused up, messed (up), screwed up, slipped up, stumbled, tripped noddedbobbled, botched, bungled, butchered, foozled, mangled, mishandled, muffed, murderedmiscalculated, misconceived, miscounted, miscued, misdeemed, misgauged(also misgaged), misjudged, mistookmisconstrued, misinterpreted, misunderstood dropped the ball, laid an egg |