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 Andrew Lang
While Mr. Leaf calls it "a model of skilful construction," Wilamowitz Mollendorff denounces it as the work of "a slenderly-gifted botcher," of about 650 B.C., a century previous to Mr. Leaf's Athenian editor.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
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 William Congreve
I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
