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

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 Wray, Fitzwater

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

In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin