Botched
Botched adjective - Showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation).
Usage example: a botched attempt to mend relations with our disaffected European allies
Expert
Expert adjective - Accomplished with trained ability.
Both words in one sentence
- When the jeweler is killed during the botched robbery job by Verbal with a handgun, the weapon foreshadows the method Verbal later uses to kill Keaton and the rest of the group, except one he stabs in the back of the neck, because the guy was a firearms expert.
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