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
It is an ignorant zeal that haunts him, sir; But truly, else, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth.
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Tink′ler: the act of doing tinker's work: a botcher or bungler: a botch or bungle: a young mackerel.—v.t. to repair, esp. unskilfully.—v.i. to do tinker's work: to make a botch or mess of anything.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
His humble trade as a botcher does not allow a fixed tariff, and he is all alone as he vindicates the value of his work.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
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
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