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
While Mr. Leaf calls it "a model of skilful construction," Wilamowitz Mollendorff denounces it as the work of "a slenderly-gifted botcher," of about 650 B.C., a century previous to Mr. Leaf's Athenian editor.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
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
