Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A botching, or that which is botched; clumsy or bungling work or workmanship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act of
botching . - noun Something botched;
clumsy orcareless workmanship .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a pity that with that botchery (chapuceria), that ridiculous attitude which is incompatible with the dignity of the position, Mr. Kennedy sounded that sour note and dropped a stain on an action which was motivated by a lofty humanitarian spirit.
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This is botchery and sometimes butchery, not reviewing.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
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"Childe Harold" or "Don Juan," despite Swinburne's accusation of botchery, they would see that he really had very little time to be wicked.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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They want shabbily compensated, compulsory labor as a means of delaying a reckoning for imperial botchery.
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It appeared then and it seems more the case now that Menon was covering up for the Sharm-el-Sheikh botchery of the PM, who shared his views on engaging with Pakistan on Kashmir.
IntelliBriefs 2010
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I don't remember ever having lived in a punk house in Portland ... but then again, de-botchery sometimes gets the better of my brain.
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The cutthroat competitive botchery of the someprofits are giving the real non-profits a bad name and are impeding the less-than-profits from doing the real grassroots mobilization.
CounterPunch 2009
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People need to know the real version, in all its majestic whore botchery.
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