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
I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
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
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 G. Patrick Nelson
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
