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

If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

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 Nelson, G. Patrick

I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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 Snider, Denton Jaques