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 Day, Holman

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

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 Congreve, William

I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater