How to Use bungled in a Sentence

bungled

adjective
  • The judge recently removed the lead prosecutor from the case over a bungled effort to track emails sent to defense lawyers in order to find the source of the leaks.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • The current standoff comes against the backdrop of Mr. Modi’s bungled response to the pandemic—and his roasting on Twitter over it.
    Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • Washington will need to do better than Mr. Biden’s bungled summit.
    Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
  • But the district’s bungled effort to test tens of thousands of students over winter break only added to parents’ and teachers’ concerns.
    New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Gallagher’s trial came after a judge removed the lead prosecutor over a bungled effort that used software to track emails sent to defense lawyers to find the source of leaks to the media.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
  • A glaring example: the city’s commercial trash contract, the result of a bungled bidding process by the city manager and commission, has drawn the wrath of the oversight board.
    Jay Weaver, miamiherald, 9 June 2017
  • Gallagher’s trial came after a judge removed the lead prosecutor over a bungled effort that used software to track emails sent to defense lawyers in order to find the source of leaks to the media.
    Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Elsewhere, the safe-haven dollar is up while crude sinks as investors focus more attention on Europe's bungled vaccine rollout.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Perhaps nowhere outside the country is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Borrowers frequently complain about opaque, sloppy and bungled service from the companies hired to collect their payments.
    Stacy Cowley and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • But a bungled gender reassignment surgery leaves Hedwig with a remaining reminder.
    oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Without Trump’s rules of engagement, the bungled effort to soothe a mourning widow could easily have been resolved with a simple statement of clarification from the president.
    Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The announcement comes as the San Diego Association of Governments has been mired in scandal — including billions in bungled revenue projections and questions about whether there was an attempt to cover it up.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Federal prison employees say their lives are in danger after a series of bungled instructions and widespread supply shortages amid the coronavirus outbreak.
    Cassidy McDonald, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Second, the Obama administration’s bungled attempt to stabilize the Middle East by softening its approach to Iran had the opposite effect.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The bungled operation was a dress rehearsal for their even more botched break-ins at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex nine months later.
    Christian Appy, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2021
  • But caught in the middle of a presidential election and a bungled roll-out of its decision to postpone the fall football season, Warren left himself vulnerable to this kind of savage political opportunism.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The bid comes as Toshiba faces scrutiny from activists following a series of scandals, including a record fine for faulty accounting, billions of dollars in writedowns and a bungled foray into U.S. nuclear power.
    Manuel Baigorri, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But ultimately, the extensive lists of contaminants and the city's bungled education campaign may have resulted in a general recycling aversion.
    Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 13 July 2017
  • Observers have noted that such disinformation may be intended to deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s bungled pandemic response and onto a longtime adversary in the Chinese.
    Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2020

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