: unsuccessful because of being poorly done : spoiled by mistakes
a botched attempt
a botched recipe
a botched medical procedure
Examples of botched in a Sentence
a botched attempt to mend relations with our disaffected European allies
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Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a situation that’s preventing the OS provider from communicating normally following the botched disclosure of a major vulnerability.
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
Indeed, the writers surmised that the rocket engineer was so clearly the USSR's MVP that — had Korolev survived the botched medical procedure that killed him — the Soviet space program would have continued to outpace its American counterpart.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 May 2026
The memory of the botched attempt against the Patriots definitely didn't help his cause, either, as the team decided his fate.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
In the aftermath of the video, the NYPD transferred a captain, a lieutenant, and six Brooklyn Narcotics detectives who made up the team that ran the botched buy-and-bust operation.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
Indeed, the writers surmised that the rocket engineer was so clearly the USSR's MVP that — had Korolev survived the botched medical procedure that killed him — the Soviet space program would have continued to outpace its American counterpart.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 May 2026
The memory of the botched attempt against the Patriots definitely didn't help his cause, either, as the team decided his fate.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
In the aftermath of the video, the NYPD transferred a captain, a lieutenant, and six Brooklyn Narcotics detectives who made up the team that ran the botched buy-and-bust operation.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Botched.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/botched. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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