0 present participle of fumble
1 to do something awkwardly, especially when using your hands:
3 to have difficulty saying or thinking of suitable words:
I was fumbling for the right word.
It is the people themselves, subject to the hopeful, fumbling, imperfect workings of democracy, who are fully responsible for their own defence.
Its members are at sixes and sevens and their fumbling attempts to paper over the cracks deceive no one.
I once spent five minutes fumbling about in the dark trying to release myself from the seat belt of my daughter's car.
We all subscribe to those objectives in our own pragmatic, rather tentative and perhaps hesitant and fumbling rule-of-thumb manner.
The attempts by the local education authority to remove surplus places have been met by prevarication, fumbling inefficiency, and totally unwarranted and costly delay.
Anything that will assist the war effort will command my immediate support, and there will be no hesitation or fumbling.
I must admit that we are fumbling in the dark.
We have endured now for nearly seven years a policy of fumbling fingers and faltering feet.
