adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a bungling manner; unskilfully, clumsily.

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1611.  Florio, Acciarpa, botchinglie, bunglinglie.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 330. When done so bunglingly, that it is detected.

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1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton, iii. (1840), 47. They did it but bunglingly.

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1864.  Mrs. H. Wood, Trevlyn Hold, I. iii. 37. So bunglingly did she execute her commission.

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