botched up
Ruined through incompetence
Botched up means ruined through clumsy or incompetent work.
A botched-up job shows obvious mistakes or carelessness: The contractors left us with a botched-up renovation.
The phrase is slightly more emphatic than botched alone, stressing the thoroughness of the failure.
- bungledPerformed ineptly, failed
- messed upDisordered or badly handled
- mucked upSpoiled through carelessness
- fouled upMade errors that ruined
- messDisorderly, troublesome condition
mismanage · blunder · screwed the pooch · bodge · dropped the ball · faux pas · flub · made a hash of · miscalculation · slip-up · balls-up · error · gone wrong · undone · cock-up · mishandle · screw-up · misstep