as in butcher
someone who bungles an effort
leave it to that blunderbuss to bungle a job that a child could do
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Recent Examples of blunderbuss
The Agojie’s divisions consisted of five branches: blunderbuss or artillery women, elephant hunters, musketeers, razor women, and archers.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
Cover Stories reporter Patrick O’Driscoll once tried to sell an idea on bear hunting by bursting into a meeting in a bear suit while a reporter with a toy blunderbuss chased him around the conference table.
—USA Today, 14 Sep. 2022
Adding a novel tariff blunderbuss is not likely to make the situation better.
—Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review, 22 Apr. 2021
This would turn antitrust law into a blunderbuss aimed by failing competitors against companies that do a better job of serving consumers.
—Robert H. Bork, National Review, 11 June 2021
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
Cover Stories reporter Patrick O’Driscoll once tried to sell an idea on bear hunting by bursting into a meeting in a bear suit while a reporter with a toy blunderbuss chased him around the conference table.
—USA Today, 14 Sep. 2022
Adding a novel tariff blunderbuss is not likely to make the situation better.
—Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review, 22 Apr. 2021
This would turn antitrust law into a blunderbuss aimed by failing competitors against companies that do a better job of serving consumers.
—Robert H. Bork, National Review, 11 June 2021
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“Blunderbuss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blunderbuss. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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