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 Lang, Andrew

In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

Bid the     dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer     dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

That was when the barracks was building, and one day a bit of a newspaper blowed over from the officers' quarters, and 2001 came on it, and the botcher picked it up.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir