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
"What a botcher is the most learned chemist compared with the root-fibres of the smallest plant," continued Siegwart.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
That was when the barracks was building, and one day a bit of a newspaper blowed over from the officers' quarters, and 2001 came on it, and the botcher picked it up.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
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
