botched

botch (b

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tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es

1. To ruin through clumsiness.

2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle.

3. To repair or mend clumsily.

1. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

2. A hodgepodge.

[Middle English bocchen, to mend.]

botcher n.

botchy adj.

Synonyms: botch, blow¹, bungle, fumble, muff¹
These verbs mean to harm or spoil through inept or clumsy handling: botch a repair; blow an opportunity; bungle an interview; fumbled my chance to apologize; muffed the painting job.

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Adj.

botched - spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"

bungled

unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"

Translations

botched [ˈbɒtʃt] adj [attempt, robbery, job, rescue] → raté(e)
botch-up [ˈbɒtʌp] n → travail m bâclé

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I says to myself I've botched my chances by that; I surely have, if he meets up with Hal Clayton.

Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context

So, that feather-headed boy had botched things again

A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context

Having the natural feelings of a tradesman at finding that a job he should have been called in for had been unskilfully botched by his customers among themselves, he was disposed to say no.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

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