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

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

A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

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

It is an ignorant zeal that haunts him, sir; But truly, else, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth.

From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben