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View synonyms for botched

botched

[ bocht ]

adjective

  1. 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

  1. 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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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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