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

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

"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 Bolanden, Conrad von

In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin