| 词汇 | fumbling |
| 释义 | fumbling adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈfʌm.blɪŋ/ us /ˈfʌm.blɪŋ/ awkward, embarrassing, or nervous: His muddled, fumbling comments show just how out of touch he is with the public. He snatched the seatbelt from the boy's fumbling hands and clipped it into place. This disappointing film is a fumbling examination of teen friendship in modern-day Mexico. He portrays the singer as being a sad-eyed, fumbling mess until he meets the love of his life. After a single fumbling encounter, he proposed to her. Inability and awkwardness accident-prone adorkable all thumbsidiom amateurish amateurishly fumblingly functional illiteracy gauche gauchely gawkily inexpertly jack-of-all-trades jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom klutzy like a bull in a china shopidiom uncoordinated uneducable unenterprising unequal ungainly Related wordfumble Examples of fumblingfumbling It is the people themselves, subject to the hopeful, fumbling, imperfect workings of democracy, who are fully responsible for their own defence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its members are at sixes and sevens and their fumbling attempts to paper over the cracks deceive no one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I once spent five minutes fumbling about in the dark trying to release myself from the seat belt of my daughter's car. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all subscribe to those objectives in our own pragmatic, rather tentative and perhaps hesitant and fumbling rule-of-thumb manner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The attempts by the local education authority to remove surplus places have been met by prevarication, fumbling inefficiency, and totally unwarranted and costly delay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anything that will assist the war effort will command my immediate support, and there will be no hesitation or fumbling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must admit that we are fumbling in the dark. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have endured now for nearly seven years a policy of fumbling fingers and faltering feet. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were able to slip away from that because of a little fumbling about the report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had a shambling, fumbling, largely irrelevant and, at one point, degrading speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One stands for a long time at the window and watches the chap fumbling for change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The others end up whistling in the wind, fumbling in the dark, or whatever metaphor one wants to use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been only a fumbling towards any kind of energy policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They feel that there has been blundering and fumbling in the handling of this incident. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a generation impatient of the mumblings and bumblings and fumblings of what has too often passed for statesmanship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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