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

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

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

The world has judged: the Odyssey is a marvel of construction: therefore is not the work of a late botcher of disparate materials, but of a great early poet.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

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