Fumbling

English

Verb

fumbling

1. Present participle of fumble.

Noun

Fumbling (plural Fumblings)

1. An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers.
   • 2009 Sam Tanenhaus A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch

   From the beginning her mini-campaign, with its many missteps and fumblings, seem mired in confusion.

Thesaurus

all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blunderheadedness, blundering, boggling, boorish, botchery, botching, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, carelessness, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, muffing, oafish, ponderous, sloppiness, sloppy, stiff, too many cooks, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy