(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.
Murder
Definition:
(n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
(n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
(n.) To destroy; to put an end to.
(n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(3) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(4) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(7) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
(8) Black physicians should assume a lead role in these inquiries and in the prevention and treatment of violence, specifically black-on-black murder.
(9) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(10) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(11) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(12) He added: "Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
(13) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(14) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
(15) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
(16) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
(17) In the film Miller puts allegations of torture and murder to representatives of the Syrian government.
(18) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
(19) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(20) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.