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
I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.
From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
He was a remarkable man, though a mere botcher at his trade; for he could never manage to make his customers’ clothes fit their bodies.
From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Riou, Edouard
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 Francke, Kuno
I am brought to fine uses, to become a botcher of second-hand marriages between Abigails and Andrews!
From The Way of the World by Congreve, William
