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
While Mr. Leaf calls it "a model of skilful construction," Wilamowitz Mollendorff denounces it as the work of "a slenderly-gifted botcher," of about 650 B.C., a century previous to Mr. Leaf's Athenian editor.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
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 William Congreve
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
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
