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
Ignore this rule and you'll hesitate, botch it, and be caught like Steve McQueen on barbed wire in The Great Escape.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Vocabulary lists containing botch
Awkward Moments
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