botcher
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One of the most effective hucksters on eastern TV is a bashful botcher who muffs his lines, meanders off-camera, even mumbles his apologies for intruding on TViewers' time.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was when the barracks was building, and one day a bit of a newspaper blowed over from the officers' quarters, and 2001 came on it, and the botcher picked it up.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
But to prevent this botcher of a tailor spoiling it, I will make it myself with closed doors, so that no one sees me.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
People have often said of me, not to my face, but behind my back, that in most things I was but a botcher and a bungler.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
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