Crossword-Solution: BUNGLED 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Accept the terms of these outlaws all, And be thankful that things have fallen out Exactly as you would have had them fall-- You may save the one that you care about; Otherwise, how did you hope to gain Access to her--on what pretence? What were the schemes that worried your brain To tempt her there or to lure her thence? You must have bungled, and raised a scandal About your ears, that might well have shamed The rudest Hun, the veriest Vandal, Long or ever the bird was tamed.

But at the last second, he bungled, hesitated; Hilma shrank from him, supple as a young reed; Annixter clutched harshly at her arm, and trod his full weight upon one of her slender feet, his cheek and chin barely touching the delicate pink lobe of one of her ears, his lips brushing merely a fold of her shirt waist between neck and shoulder.

One would expect that great worldly lights might learn by experience how fatal bungled entertainments can be, but such is not the case.

The whole sex becomes novel and interesting and worth while." As he left the office, unusually late, he saw her still at work--no doubt doing over again some bungled piece of copying.

The principle I have just mentioned as operating had been, with the most newly disembarked of the two men, wholly instinctive—the fruit of a sharp sense that, delightful as it would be to find himself looking, after so much separation, into his comrade’s face, his business would be a trifle bungled should he simply arrange for this countenance to present itself to the nearing steamer as the first “note,” of Europe.