botched

botch  (bch)

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.

n.

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

2. A hodgepodge.

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[Middle English bocchen, to mend.]

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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.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

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