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Definition of Botched
1. Adjective. Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness. "A bungled job"
Definition of Botched
1. Verb. (past of botch) ¹
2. Adjective. clumsily made or repaired in an unacceptable or incompetent manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Botched
1. botch [v] - See also: botch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Botched
Literary usage of Botched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"... leaves should be made up in manuscript, and the book elegantly bound ; instead
of which, and as it was, it has been miserably botched in the binding ! ..."
2. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"A kind of administration is botched up for the present, and even gave itself an
air of that fierceness with which the winter sat out. ..."
3. Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and by Joseph Hartwell Barrett (1864)
"Whig Measures Democratically botched.—First Meeting of Lincoln with Douglas.—The
Latter Seeks an Office of the Legislature and Gets it. ..."
4. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"... while the above-mentioned Clarke Mills — certainly the greatest bungler that
ever botched a block of marble — has received an order for an equestrian ..."
5. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"... while the above-mentioned Clarke Mills — certainly the greatest bungler that
ever botched a block of marble — has received an order for an equestrian ..."
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