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

Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.

From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick

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

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

"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