botcher

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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

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

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

I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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