'botch' is a word that is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb and means to "do something clumsily or make a mess of something". For example, "She tried to bake a cake, but she ended up botching it and the finished result was inedible."
("There has not been a good time in the last 51 years, " he retorts).In this section Fee fight The Chavez enigma Under examination Suriname's wondrous botch ReprintsOpponents of fee increases invoke the guarantee of free education enshrined in Mexico's 1917 constitution.
"I've just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things," he told his aides.
Techno-utopianists of a libertarian bent think this vision is a confused botch, and that the purpose of the internet is to provide decentralised autonomous peer-to-peer systems that can replace government, not empower it.
That charge forms part of the impeachment proceedings which the parliament launched against the president in December.Now the Lithuanian government may be about to botch another deal.
Under the IJS, the optimal strategy is to attempt the most demanding routine possible, and then hope not to botch it too badly.Ms Sotnikova and her coaches understood this logic perfectly.
Now they become first preelderly, then senior citizens and pass away in a terminal episode or (if doctors botch their treatment) after a therapeutic misadventure.
For the next stage of his strategy to work, he may have to hope that Mr Blair makes a botch of running Britain, but that the Scottish parliament, in which Mr Blair's New Labour is bound to be the dominant party, remains popular.This rather tortured scenario also assumes that voters would turn to his party for salvation, rather than to the Tories.
Frederic Hof, a former Syria point-man at the State Department, now at the Atlantic Council, sees an "Iraq syndrome" within government, and a prevailing view that America will botch any intervention it tries.
So the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of Mr Obama's health department, did so on their behalf, hiring a squadron of contractors to help.Why did they botch it so badly?
And whilst Mr Bush has pushed his party towards the centre, Mr Gore ran much further left than he needed to (and thus, incidentally, managed to botch an election that, by most conventional yardsticks, he should have won comfortably).In either case, the winner will probably have to do more than make friendly noises towards the opposition.
To begin with, the rescue of Greece was a botch: it fudged the obvious issue that Greece will never fully be able to repay its debts on time.
