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

Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.

From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor

I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

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

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