What's the difference between botch and incompetent?

Botch


Definition:

  • (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
  • (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • (n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
  • (n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.
  • (n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
  • (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
  • (2) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
  • (3) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
  • (4) Appearing before the Business, Innovation and Skills committee, Richard Cormack of Goldman Sachs and James Robertson, managing director of UBS, were accused of botching the flotation and costing the taxpayers many millions of pounds.
  • (5) Botched FGM can leave women doubly incontinent and ostracised by their communities.
  • (6) The Oklahoma prison admitted that the drugs and IV fluid “infiltrated” and “extravasated” into the tissues of Lockett’s groin because of the misplaced catheter, and that is why the execution was prolonged and botched.
  • (7) A botched job, on its own, narrow terms, AQA's list – launched in the week in which British readers and the national press has been mourning the death of Maya Angelou – is even more ludicrous and ill-conceived when placed in a wider context.
  • (8) He did so in protest at Foster’s refusal to stand aside temporarily from her post as first minister while a public inquiry was held into a costly botched green energy scheme.
  • (9) Amid her grief and despair, MacKeown still feels anger at the Goa police for the first, botched autopsy.
  • (10) Lee insisted in interviews that he had been blinded during a critical instant before the botched landing by a piercing light from outside the aircraft.
  • (11) – and the botched Fast & Furious gun-running sting, which is a whole different ballgame and beside the point.
  • (12) He had earlier challenged the constitutionality of another drug in the cocktail, midazolam, which last year was used in the botched execution of Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett , who writhed on a gurney for 43 minutes before dying.
  • (13) They add this appears to be the outcome of a botched late-night drafting process and complete lack of consultation with bloggers, online journalists and social media users, who may now be caught in regulations which trample on grassroots democratic activity and Britain's emerging digital economy.
  • (14) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
  • (15) These included a botched phone-in competition to name a new Blue Peter cat and problems with phone-ins for TV shows including Children in Need, Sport Relief, and Comic Relief, and radio programmes hosted by Liz Kershaw, Russell Brand, Claire McDonnell and Jo Whiley.
  • (16) Risen writes on botched Iranian operation, gets subpoenaed."
  • (17) Photograph: AP Maya Foa, of anti-death penalty group Reprieve, said: “The state of Arizona had every reason to believe that this procedure would not go smoothly; the experimental execution ‘cocktail’ had only been used once before, and that execution too was terribly botched.
  • (18) In the document, Rabbani's lawyer tells how his client reported several botched attempts at force feeding.
  • (19) Midazolam was also used in the botched execution of Clayton Lockett by Oklahoma in April.
  • (20) A nurse who faces being struck off over a botched Ebola screening at Heathrow airport has said it is “preposterous” that she would have concealed knowledge that Pauline Cafferkey was unwell.

Incompetent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
  • (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
  • (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
  • (2) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
  • (3) All but one patient had clinical evidence of pulmonary incompetence.
  • (4) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
  • (5) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
  • (6) A differentiation incompetent QM cell derivative was also isolated (QM5DI).
  • (7) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
  • (8) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
  • (9) This implies that degradation of sIgM does not result from the incompetence of 38C cells to polymerize.
  • (10) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
  • (11) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
  • (12) The etiology of acute severe mitral incompetence resulting from rupture of the chordae is presented and is illustrated by four case reports.
  • (13) Without the addition of the sRNA, the 7-8-8.5-10 particles were incompetent while the 7-8-8.5-10-RNA particles were competent in DNA packaging.
  • (14) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
  • (15) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (16) Incidence of isolated mitral incompetence and combined heart injuries, valve damage mechanics, and frequent causes of blunt chest trauma are discussed.
  • (17) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
  • (18) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (19) The device was implanted around 11 completely incompetent and seven partially incompetent valves in 18 veins of 11 sheep.
  • (20) It is clear that they are either incompetent or corrupt, and I don’t believe that they are incompetent.