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Clumsy or careless effort or result.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Half of our life is spent in getting competents to repair the botchwork of incompetents.
  • It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses.
  • "Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose...
  • God's botchwork.
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