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

That was when the barracks was building, and one day a bit of a newspaper blowed over from the officers' quarters, and 2001 came on it, and the botcher picked it up.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays.

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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