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

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

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

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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

From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor