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

The world has judged: the Odyssey is a marvel of construction: therefore is not the work of a late botcher of disparate materials, but of a great early poet.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

I am brought to fine uses, to become a botcher of second-hand marriages between Abigails and Andrews!

From The Way of the World by Congreve, William

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

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

From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor