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
In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
"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
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
