| Monsieur, we may observe, had completely superseded the bumbler, just as a colonel supersedes a captain on coming up. |
| He was unpopular, seen as a political bumbler, and during his time hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in massive pro-democracy protests. |
| Grint is less the hapless bumbler, his inadequacies more real, while Radcliffe has deepened Harry's emotional core to far more persuasive levels. |
| Not a few biographies of Napoleon portray him as a megalomaniac and even a bumbler. |
| The CIA was not impressed, dismissing the would-be politician as an inept bumbler. |
| A thoroughgoing bumbler, he accidentally kills the boss's grandson and then loses the pistol. |
