Roleset bungle.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "mess up, botch":

Roles:

Arg0:bungler


Arg1:thing tried

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


bungle bungle bungle (-)
Intelligence Committee Chairman David Boren (D., Okla.) and Vice Chairman William Cohen (R., Maine), for their part, angrily accused the White House of selectively leaking classified documents and trying unfairly to shift the blame to Congress for the bungled attempt [*] to topple Gen. Noriega.
REL:	bungled
Arg1:	[ attempt] [ [*] to topple Gen. Noriega]

Wow, some things never change.