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 drive master’s haste indicated that she had been betrayed by the sullen botcher of methods.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
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
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
