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
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
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 may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
