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botched
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Botched is a 2007 horror comedy film directed by Kit Ryan and starring Stephen Dorff . It is an international co-production between Australia, the UK, Germany, Ireland, and the US. Dorff plays a thief who, when he botches a robbery for his boss, is forced ...
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adj. spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job" [syn: bungled ]
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Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching .] [See Botch , n.] To mark with, or as with, botches. Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes ...
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clumsily made or repaired in an unacceptable or incompetent manner. v (en-past of: botch)
Usage examples of botched.
Launching the words at her like so many spears, he shattered her dream of the loving parent as surely as Nhaille had botched her plan of escape.
Or parading past the Arc de Triomphe-why, the Reds who claim the resistance was botched will have a field day.
The attorney had botched only one major assignment since entering into his private relationship with the president of the W and P.
But lab results had been lost, tests botched, evidence turned up missing, and all the clues seemed to lead to dead ends.
But in this botched meeting, even that much might seem offensive disloyalty to Burne-Wilke.
Pity, that in His botched universe a Hector must unjustly die, and his poor corpse be dragged in the dust.
Dragged himself around for a week, taking aspirin, but then he triea an attack on a freighter and botched it.
And there had been more free time since he botched the L1 stabilization and Qiwi Lisolet took over.
I guess the doctor botched the delivery, and she had to have an emergency hysterectomy.
I thought of all the experimental, heuristic, and botched compositions that kept him company over long years, and how, whatever the orchestration, form, choice of language, all pieces amounted to love songs, not just to a lost woman, but to a world whose pattern he could not help wanting to save.
A tragic account of a botched stage robbery, a virginal girl journeying to a Mexican convent to take her vows, a noble and naive young man who took a bullet in the heart rather than allow his traveling companion to be ravished by a gang of bloodthirsty outlaws.
One day Dylan saw one scratching some primitive botched skully board, not on a slate but on a pebbly square of poured concrete, hopeless, like a fallout survivor dim with radiation sickness sketching a blueprint for reinvention of the wheel.
Then came the conspiracy of that unhanged traitor Ristkon and his friends, and the three of them were massacred in the botched assassination attempt on Malchion.
Even more astonishing, it was just this morning that Leigh Mellon had called with her hysterical story about the botched abduction of her son.
CHAPTER XIII BROKEN BATTLE BOTCHED thoughts bewildered Pointer Trame, as he realized that he was faced by The Shadow, in actuality.