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
People have often said of me, not to my face, but behind my back, that in most things I was but a botcher and a bungler.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
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 William Shakespeare
I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.
From Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
