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
Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
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
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
If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
