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
The drive master’s haste indicated that she had been betrayed by the sullen botcher of methods.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
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
If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
