botchery

The entire evening: a botchery.

The botchery was complete.

"Botchery," whispered Tung, gone sallow-pale.

You puling, milk-livered pile of festering dung, cutting your filthy heart out would be revenge too small for your botchery!"

This half-bucolic botchery"--Anacho made a scornful gesture "reflects the caprice of the Blue Chasch.

Dressmakers and children's nurses, she knew, could earn higher wages, but even the thought of working as a sewing-woman made her smile, remembering the botchery she made of her sewing, and for a child's nurse they would want to know much more about her than she would be willing to tell.