What's the difference between botched and clumsily?
Botched
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Botch
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.
Clumsily
Definition:
(adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(2) He changes the subject in a way that is clumsily endearing yet explains why he sometimes had trouble communicating his heartfelt vision to the public.
(3) The palace also reached clumsily for the Scottish card.
(4) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
(5) Patrice Evra had more reason than most to be grateful to Payet after clumsily bringing down Nicolae Stanciu to give away the penalty that brought Romania level nine minutes after Olivier Giroud had given France a second-half lead.
(6) The King Jacob stopped 100 metres from the marooned boat, whose captain – believed to be a Tunisian – manoeuvred clumsily in the dark, ramming the Portuguese boat.
(7) Joleon Lescott last weekend irked supporters by clumsily saying relegation was a “weight off the shoulders”.
(8) That ill-fated effort was bedeviled with missteps, including a question about climate change clumsily planted with an Iowan college student .
(9) He's now clattered clumsily into the back of Matuidi.
(10) "First Gadzhi joined them and then Ramzan, who danced clumsily with his gold-plated automatic stuck down in the back of his jeans … Both Gadzhi and Ramzan showered the dancing children with $100 bills; the dancers probably picked upwards of US$5,000 off the cobblestones."
(11) Some species are eliminated through sheer human carelessness, as we clumsily attempt to mould the world in our image.
(12) I'm not convinced I'm much help, clumsily treading water in my flippers, but Moi takes charge and soon we have a few dozen fish, which he chops up for us to eat raw.
(13) 3.29am GMT Half-time: Seattle 1-0 Colorado Half-time thoughts in a moment 3.29am GMT 45 mins +3 Harris picks up the Rapids second yellow as he clatters in clumsily in pursuit of the ball.
(14) Swansea looked like they might cling on but with the clock ticking down Àngel Rangel clumsily bundled into Firmino and Milner made no mistake from the spot.
(15) But then O'Sullivan plays down table and clumsily watches his top spin take the cueball in off and into the bottom left corner pocket.
(16) Sing If You Can is so very terrible that when it clumsily cuts from Lisa Maxwell being dangled in a rubbish bin singing The Only Way Is Up to shots of children with terrible illnesses, they genuinely lift my spirits.
(17) After a first-half in which Bojan Krkic, making his first start for eight months, was inspirational, a penalty clumsily conceded by Marko Arnautovic gave the visitors hope, before Jamie Vardy , with his third goal in as many games, opportunistically secured the draw.
(18) Through my viewfinder I am watching Ataqullah clumsily struggling to take his first steps on the new plastic leg while his shattered arm swings beside him.
(19) Updated at 9.47pm BST 9.46pm BST 43 min: Zuniga rather clumsily clatters into Neymar as the former jinks around a bit down the inside left.
(20) Perez is hacked down by Vlaar, clumsily rather than maliciously, 25 yards out, just to the right of goal.