Botched

ppl. a. [f. BOTCH v.¹ + -ED.] Mended or patched in a bungling manner; clumsily put together; cobbled. Hence Botchedly adv.

  1568.  Dk. Norfolk, in Campbell, Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots, App. 27. You schall make but boched work yf you doe not sowndlie and perfectlye conclude thowes dyfferencys.

1733.  G. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, I. x. § 4. This Cement never makes them the same continued Organ, scarce any thing but a botch’d or clouted one.

1752.  Hume, Idea Perf. Commw., Ess. (1777), I. 524. The common botched and inaccurate governments seem to serve the purposes of society.

1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. viii. A botched mass of tailors’ and cobblers’ shreds.

1879.  Spectator, 31 May, 681/1. The Peace [with Afghanistan] is a botched-up affair, bringing Great Britain nothing but some new and heavy responsibilities.

  1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. III. III. lxvii. Thus patch they Heaven more botch’dly then old cloths.