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
I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.
From Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
But to prevent this botcher of a tailor spoiling it, I will make it myself with closed doors, so that no one sees me.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
It is an ignorant zeal that haunts him, sir; But truly, else, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth.
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
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