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 world has judged: the Odyssey is a marvel of construction: therefore is not the work of a late botcher of disparate materials, but of a great early poet.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
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
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 Edouard Riou
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
