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
Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.
From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick
Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.
From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
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
People have often said of me, not to my face, but behind my back, that in most things I was but a botcher and a bungler.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
