botch
Ruin through clumsiness
To botch is to bungle or spoil through poor work or clumsiness: He botched the repair job.
A botch is the ruined result itself—a mess made of something that should have been done properly.
The word often implies carelessness rather than incompetence: The surgery was botched.
A botch job is shoddy work.
Foolish, costly mistake
- bungleFail through clumsiness
- errorFault in communication
- fumbleHandle with clumsy fingers
- goofMinor foolish error
flub · mishap · slip · gaffe · misstep · snafu · lapse · foul-up
Of poor craftsmanship
- slipshodCareless and hasty
- hack jobShoddy, rushed work
- jury-rigImprovise temporary repair
- kludgeAwkward but functional solution
cobble · amateurish · slapdash · makeshift · quick fix · bodge · half-baked · rough
blunder
Foolish, costly mistake
goof · flub · mishap · slip · gaffe · misstep · snafu · lapse · foul-up · screw-up
shoddy
Of poor craftsmanship
kludge · cobble · amateurish · slapdash · makeshift · quick fix · bodge · half-baked · rough · crude
fiasco
Humiliating public failure
wreck · shambles · train wreck · misfire · flop · dud · washout · catastrophe · breakdown · collapse
spoil
Damage or overindulge
wreck · damage · mess up · foul up · screw up · destroy · sabotage · disfigure · impair · compromise
- speech errorsslip of the tongue, mispronunciation, malapropism, malapropisms, spoonerism
- bloopersbloopers, blooper, fail, gag reel, outtakes
- blundersblunder, blunders, blundered, mistakes, errors
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- human flawsmistake, error, flaw, fault, failing
- Incompetencebungle, failure, inability, blunder, ineptitude
- botch jobBadly done task
- botching upSpoiling through incompetence
- botched jobBadly performed task
- botched surgeryFailed medical procedure
- botch upSpoil by incompetence
- botches upSpoils through incompetence