bungling

On-Yomi: セツ — Kun-Yomi: つたな.い

Koohii stories:

1) [smithsonian] 5-12-2006(217): With fingers fumbling around trying to get the key in the door so he could exit, the bungling husband woke his wife as he tried to leave for a rendezvous with his mistress.

2) [Kurisu] 3-6-2008(116): Horror movie cliche 769: Bungling victim's fingers fumble & bungle trying to open the exit door.

3) [DrJones] 23-12-2007(54): You were bungling in the darkness and touched the cactus with your fingers. OUCH!!

4) [herman] 25-11-2008(33): Here's a guy who's bungling his first experience with his hand up a girl's skirt and ends up with his fingers in the exit hole. She yells: get out of my bung-hole!

5) [ambrokusa] 25-3-2007(22): After the brief press conference in China, the bungling President Bush put his fingers on the door to escape, but the exit was locked.