botch
verb (used with object)
to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed byup ).
botchery
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a word derived from
botch.
Example Sentences
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That might have been enough to bring a resigned chuckle of recognition — hey, the Mets are gonna Mets — to anyone familiar with the franchise’s unique brand of slapstick botchery.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2019
In court, Sir George, an 82-year-old, devout Church of Englander, said Cavalcade's botchery had caused him great pain, for his friends began suspecting that, at his great age, he had lost his mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is botchery and sometimes butchery, not reviewing.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
They scold their elders for grumbling, and then make botchery of their own lives.
From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach
