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botched
[ bocht ]
adjective
- spoiled by poor or clumsy work; bungled:
The teachers are up in arms about the botched rollout of the new standards, which caused unnecessary confusion and stress for them and their students.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of botch 1( def ).
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Other Words From
- botch·ed·ly [boch, -id-lee], adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of botched1
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Example Sentences
Todd is at his best discussing the unbelievably botched rollout of healthcare.gov.
The result, Panetta says: botched U.S. policies from Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan.
That same day, despite tissues still damp from the aftermath of the botched audition, my life changed in a matter of two hours.
The recent botched executions are just the tip of the iceberg.
Another week, another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment.
To think of a chap writing such a veiled, ambiguous, absolutely botched sentence, and cooking up such a mess!
But of Van city itself—thanks to its proximity to the frontier—he made rather a botched job.
That was his chief boast, if boasting it might be called—that he never botched the job.
This is perfectly true; much as Lnnrot botched and vamped the Finnish lays he made no epic out of them.
None of your botched stuff, cotton and wool, trumpery; flimsy rubbish that rips if you look at it.
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