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fumblingly
adverb
uk /ˈfʌm.blɪŋ.li/ us /ˈfʌm.blɪŋ.li/
in an awkward, embarrassing, or nervous way:
Fumblingly, and shaking with excitement, I struggled to put on my trainers.
He was different from all the boys who had fumblingly kissed her before.
To avoid embarrassing the librarian, she fumblingly hunted in her bag for her library card.
Feeling nervous, he fumblingly typed in the name and pressed the return key.
We were impressed by his portrayal of a young man fumblingly seduced by a fellow traveller.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumbling
functional illiteracy
gauche
gauchely
gawkily
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
like a bull in a china shopidiom
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly
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fumbling
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