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

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

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

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

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

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