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
Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
His humble trade as a botcher does not allow a fixed tariff, and he is all alone as he vindicates the value of his work.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
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 Holman Day
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 Andrew Lang
