fumbling

Huckabee framed the situation this way: “We are fumbling on multiple fronts.”

Season one of OITNB chronicled her clumsy, fumbling attempts to get her legs under her so she could run for safety.

By fumbling that final big decision, Ferguson may have tarnished his legacy forever.

But on the IRS story, there was systematic "fumbling" in the West Wing.

Fumbling over the words, he shouts, “This goddammed stutter!”

And just as I came up I saw Mrs. Maloney, marvellously attired, fumbling with a lantern.

She had opened the drawer of her deskthe top right-hand drawerand was fumbling in it.

But the step that would raise one above all the little fumbling, blind-spawning, life hugging bipeds who infested the scene.

"Door left unlocked—the ignorant hound—Good thing I don't trust him too far—" Some one came fumbling in and switched on the light.

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