botcher
Example Sentences
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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
I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.
From Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
"What a botcher is the most learned chemist compared with the root-fibres of the smallest plant," continued Siegwart.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
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
