: badly done : unsuccessful because of mistakes : botched
a bungled robbery
a badly bungled attempt
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An English court has sentenced a West Allis woman to 30 years in prison for her role in a bungled plot to kill a man with whom her online boyfriend had an ongoing beef.
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Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Also killed that day were Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, two ex-cons whose exploits that day began with a bungled attempt to rob a Coral Gables jewelry store.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Jo’s character is smart enough to infiltrate several crime scenes and even to skim off the profits during a bungled bust.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
In the end, safety concerns and a bungled 2023 California rollout may have left the company with wounds too deep to ever fully heal.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
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Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Also killed that day were Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, two ex-cons whose exploits that day began with a bungled attempt to rob a Coral Gables jewelry store.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Jo’s character is smart enough to infiltrate several crime scenes and even to skim off the profits during a bungled bust.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
In the end, safety concerns and a bungled 2023 California rollout may have left the company with wounds too deep to ever fully heal.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Bungled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bungled. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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