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

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

He was a remarkable man, though a mere botcher at his trade; for he could never manage to make his customers’ clothes fit their bodies.

From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Riou, Edouard

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

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 Nelson, G. Patrick