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

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 Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

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

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 Shakespeare, William

His humble trade as a botcher does not allow a fixed tariff, and he is all alone as he vindicates the value of his work.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater