botcher
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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
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
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
"What a botcher is the most learned chemist compared with the root-fibres of the smallest plant," continued Siegwart.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
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
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