: badly done : unsuccessful because of mistakes : botched
a bungled robbery
a badly bungled attempt
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In the end, safety concerns and a bungled 2023 California rollout may have left the company with wounds too deep to ever fully heal.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.
—Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2015
Critics charge the village acted hastily in a bungled attempt to unsuccessfully relocate Northbrook’s Metra station south to the former Grainger site.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
With the aura of a cult leader, Nayeri schemed for a payday with dim-bulb high school pals in a bungled plot that left an innocent man mutilated for life.
—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.
—Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2015
Critics charge the village acted hastily in a bungled attempt to unsuccessfully relocate Northbrook’s Metra station south to the former Grainger site.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
With the aura of a cult leader, Nayeri schemed for a payday with dim-bulb high school pals in a bungled plot that left an innocent man mutilated for life.
—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
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“Bungled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bungled. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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