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

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

If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

"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

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