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

But to prevent this botcher of a tailor spoiling it, I will make it myself with closed doors, so that no one sees me.

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

While Mr. Leaf calls it "a model of skilful construction," Wilamowitz Mollendorff denounces it as the work of "a slenderly-gifted botcher," of about 650 B.C., a century previous to Mr. Leaf's Athenian editor.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

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