botch
Example Sentences
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Bard would whisper funny lines into my earpiece and I would botch them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
He’ll botch a gig over his annoyance at not being allowed to call a stranger by a pet name she reserves for her closest friend.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024
The botch required the rescoring of 300,000 exams, scholastic victims of the knotty coin rotation paradox.
From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023
Now when I watch that character knock people over in her fitness class or botch an audition, I feel only solidarity and pride: Go, girl.
From Slate • May 20, 2023
What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
