botched

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This is like saying Google has botched search.

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spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"

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adjective

spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for botched.

adjective

spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"

Example sentences

This is like saying Google has botched search.

I'll take the zero if I botched this -- can you take a look for me right now?

Unless I botched a decimal place, that is a 29 watt idle load.

This is the only guy who ever got this kind of access to Steve and the people close to him and he botched it.

" Nguyen – who says he botched tests in high school because he was playing too much Counter-Strike – genuinely took them to heart.

However, the layoffs in 2009 were seriously botched.

Their entire purpose in life is this second part and they completely and absolutely botched it. I can't believe this passed testing at both Google and Apple.

Microsoft is synonymous with software that you use on your desktop and with several botched attempts at doing search.

The hotel safe -- if it weren't for everything else he'd written, I might be willing to buy that this was a botched job. But in the context of the rest of the article, I think the more reasonable explanation is that it was a crappy safe, it never did work correctly, and he only noticed that part way through his stay in the room.

Likewise with opiates: you would not see "Krokodil" or any of the other botched attempts to replace heroin if recreational opiates were legal and accessible.