Bungled [verb]

But no one in Spain and few in Manila as yet could foresee how the fulfilment of the Agreement would be bungled.

The other man was fumbling the side curtains, swearing under his breath when his fingers bungled the fastenings.

I have just come from Pasdeloups concert, where your Romeo overture was shamefully bungled.

Uncle Sam has no need of me here since I bungled things and left a leg in Paris.

You think he has bungled, but I tell you, you are the one who bungled, for you picked him to do the work.

They were not amateurs; yet, somehow, in this case, they bungled somewhat in their work.

They were systematic, therefore successful; and yet—they bungled.

A lot of German cavalry bungled on top of them, and then bolted as if the devil were after them.

For the most part the task is to make good, and to set to rights as well as possible, that which was bungled in the beginning.

The tango and the turkey-trot had spread overseas, and royalties trod on Persis' toes as they bungled the steps like yokels.