botch
verb (used with object)
to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed byup ).
botcher
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a word derived from
botch.
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
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 Kuno Francke
Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
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
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 Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
