The word "botch" means to do something badly or mess it up. If you botch a task, it means you didn't do it well or made a mistake while doing it. Full definition
But he also has to take responsibility for the laundry list of botched attempts to do much more than provide the basic service people valued since the earliest days. (techcrunch.com)
Booksellers got jaded after botched attempts to translate English - language bestsellers produced error - ridden Spanish versions that sold poorly. (goodereader.com)
Making a tackle from this position, the developers reckon, feels all - in, with no opportunity to recover from botched attempts because players had to go through the motion of completing the animation before they could recover. (eurogamer.net)