blundery

Adjective

blundery (comparative more blundery, superlative most blundery)

1. Characterised or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed up.
   • Each day must be recorded and there must be something to record, otherwise days are only days, each one gone forever when a new day comes. It’s nice to forget some awful blundery days, but it’s good to look back and learn not to blunder again.1931 January 1, Edna Staebler, “The 1930s: Longing to Make Something”, in Christl Verduyn, editor, Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, published...
   • With a goal against them, they cracked up and within a few minutes, Kowloon were two up, though it was a blundery sort of lob by Melens which went in, when it might just as easily have been the clean sort of goal one prefers.1932 November 7, “Wanderer” [pseudonym], “Blake Shines for Kowloon: Capital Win over the Navy”, in The Hongkong Telegraph, Hong Kong, page 8, column 5

   Synonyms:

   blundersome

2. Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic.
   • His little Rose was so pretty; she had such a quick appreciation of wit, and was so un-blundery in her gaiety.1881, [Harriet] Cradock, chapter II, in Rose. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], page 9
   • Any other fool can see, they’ll live up what money they brought along and then go back to where they came from. Wherever that is. They don’t say. “East,” they say, and when you say, “Whereabouts in the East?” they look sad and look away, so you feel you’re on touchy ground, and make up your mind to...1993, Isabel Miller [pseudonym; Alma Routsong], “A Dooryard Full of Flowers; Portrait by a Neighbor: Klaus”, in A Dooryard Full of Flowers and Other Short Pieces, Tallahassee, Fla.: The Naiad Press...

   Synonyms:

   blunderful, blunderous, blundersome

3. Moving blindly or clumsily; blundering.
   • The air is full of wings, / And of blundery beetle-things / That warn you with their whirring and their humming.1948, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Goblin Feet”, in Gladys L[ucy] Adshead, Annis Duff, compilers, An Inheritance of Poetry, [Boston, Mass.]: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The...
   • The “field” galloped by me in one-hundredth of a second. I remember the blundery hooves, whips, and tails.1996, Jeffery Camp, “[Still and Fast Life] Race Horses”, in Paint: A Manual of Pictorial Thought and Practical Advice, New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 196, column 2