fumbler


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Synonyms for fumbler

someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

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Now, the shame at being found an `errant fumbler' of the kind he admits to in a famous letter to Henry Savile (mistiming is always a frustrating experience) and his increasing anger at his failure to remedy the situation, result in his penis refusing to respond at all, even though the lady gives it a helping hand.
To the last I was as great a duffer and fumbler as I had been at the first - a pathetic figure, pen in hand and heart in mouth.
The alleged furtive fumbler would have fled, his lesson learnt, thus aborting the current Westminster farce.
If an offensive player fumbles the ball forward into the end zone with less than two minutes to play, only the fumbler can pick it up for a TD.
On one occasion, Gerrard played Cisse through with an exquisite pass only to see the France fumbler dilly and dally before committing the cardinal sin of driving the ball straight at Sorensen.
Adolf Hitler's massive untruths brought death to millions FUMBLER...
And Ruud Gullit also accused coach Steve McClaren of being a fumbler who cannot get his players in the right positions.
Are you a fumbler with straps or a `whisk it all off and don't give a damn' girl?
You learn, when studying this dark art, that few sights disturb the practical man or woman more than that of the fumbler wrestling on the floor with a dumb machine.
Today, though, he is more than delighted to be at the Garrick Theatre playing beloved, fez-clad fumbler Tommy Cooper.
Mum said it was peaceful until I showed up and started bawling, but she hadn't worried during the birth because she had `the Feeler and Fumbler to the Stars' taking charge - the same hands who delivered Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard's baby, not that we had much time to chat.
Gabrielle Kelly, Director of the Wellbeing and Resilience Centre, SAHMRI, delivered the first keynote presentation, 'The vision for schools in building the state of wellbeing: measurement, interventions, transmission, evidence and community' and Professor Mike, Nicholls Director Flinders Institute of Psychological Science, presented the second keynote titled 'Fumblers and Bunglers?
Note, too, that these phone fumblers haven't been sacked or even threatened with this.