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
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
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
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
The world has judged: the Odyssey is a marvel of construction: therefore is not the work of a late botcher of disparate materials, but of a great early poet.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
