ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] Done or made clumsily or unskilfully.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus, III. viii. 194. They ventured forth to Sea in bungled Boats.

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1787.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 310. Spoiling all his plans by a bungled execution.

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1825.  Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., III. ii. (1879), 316. On the ground he [the sloth] appeared … a bungled composition.

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