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
Tink′ler: the act of doing tinker's work: a botcher or bungler: a botch or bungle: a young mackerel.—v.t. to repair, esp. unskilfully.—v.i. to do tinker's work: to make a botch or mess of anything.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
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 Denton Jaques Snider
Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
