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 world has judged: the Odyssey is a marvel of construction: therefore is not the work of a late botcher of disparate materials, but of a great early poet.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.
From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
