Bungle vs Inept - What's the difference?
bungle | inept |
A botched or incompetently handled situation.
* 1888 , Henry Lawson, "".
*:The Soudan bungle was born partly of sentimental loyalty and partly of the aforementioned jealousy existing between the colonies, and now at a time when the colonies should club closer together our Government is doing all they can to widen the breach by trying to pass a bill enabling New South Wales to monopolise the name “Australia”.
To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.
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* 1853 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House , .
*:His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. “Would any one believe this?” says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. “I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!”
* Byron
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence
Unfit; unsuitable
As a noun bungle
is a botched or incompetently handled situation.As a verb bungle
is to botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.As an adjective inept is
not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.bungle
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(en-verb)Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.
- I always had an idea that it would be bungled .