bungle

Object

• robbery: Suzie is just in the wrong place at the wrong time when the bungled robbery takes place.
• burglary: Both witness to a bungled burglary, they are unknowingly being hunted by a hit man.
• raid: Anger mounting at bungled police raid ANGER IS still mounting at the police dawn raid in Forest Gate.
• attempt: He too first came to the fore in November 1963 during his bungled attempt to burgle the home of historian David Irving.
• operation: Scores more were left brain damaged after bungled operations.
• job: A vet was called to finish the bungled job of killing the dog.

Converse of object

make: The thing is, the Eurocrats have made a total bungle of explaining what the Construction Products Directive is.

Adjective modifier

• big: Big Brother's big bungles How a private ID scheme could protect your rights.
• major: Within the past couple of days in my area alone, I have come across three major bungles, including one of identity theft.

Modifying Another Word

• badly: At the trial of the Houndsditch murderers there was a badly bungled prosecution.
• again: Here, an interesting lack of congruity between animals and humans again bungled the stream of revelation.

Preposition: in

jungle: About King Leo There's been a bungle in the jungle!