I always seem to be the botcher. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : He botched up the job thoroughly. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : He made a complete botch of his first attempt at baking. From Dictionary.com.
There was never a better workman than he -- while I am only a 'botcher' -- and so generous and good-natured, wearing his heart on his sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Tales] Reference
Scotland, without troubling the botcher above once a quarter —. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
I may signify the ridiculous and bold dealing of an vnknowne botcher: but. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Was Kerry’s comment a veiled reference to our “Câ€-student botcher-in-chief?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Kerry Says ‘I’m Sorry’ on MSNBC, Snow Still Claiming He Hasn’t Apologized] Reference
Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
But Strock IS there, well, at least he stops by every few months, and we know what a botcher of jobs and cover-up apologist he is. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Strock, Another Bush "Brownie" Heading Construction in Iraq and Afghanistan] Reference
But what he took was by right of eminent domain; and was he not to resuscitate a theme and make it immortal, because some botcher had tried his hand upon it before, and left it for stone-dead?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
Why is the valorization of a contingency beyond necessity, as we'll see Agamben defining it, not routed back through the heightened literary convolutions of "phonetic spelling" after all, in instances more ambitious and self-searching than that of Stoker's Cockney botcher?. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays. From Wordnik.com. [Venetia] Reference
'I have sent a botcher to stay his coming,' he said slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference
Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders] Reference
The answer: "One is a bird watcher, and the other is a word botcher.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner. From Wordnik.com. [She Stands Accused] Reference
The drive master's haste indicated that she had been betrayed by the sullen botcher of methods. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
There is less to alter than I thought for -- the clumsiest botcher in the world could manage it. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
Mollendorff denounces it as the work of "a slenderly-gifted botcher," of about 650 B.C., a century previous to Mr. Leaf's. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
He was a remarkable man, though a mere botcher at his trade; for he could never manage to make his customers 'clothes fit their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures] Reference
The term tailor is locally employed for a bungler, a botcher, or a clumsy fellow, and these meanings have been suggested in the passage quoted. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night; or What You Will] Reference
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene V. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will] Reference
Was Kerry’s comment a veiled reference to our “C”-student botcher-in-chief?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Kerry Says ‘I’m Sorry’ on MSNBC, Snow Still Claiming He Hasn’t Apologized] Reference
You will say no more about Virginie, a botcher that cannot design a new shape, while I have ideas of my own, I have.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
"That was when the barracks was building, and one day a bit of a newspaper blowed over from the officers 'quarters, and 2001 came on it, and the botcher picked it up. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
He’s a botcher and my daughter and I are sure that once he’s finished and wants to return to The Orkneys the estate agents will market his cottage as a renovation opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [fraud] Reference
That he, who had held himself so fastidiously aloof from men, should be forced down into the market-place, there to suffer an intolerable notoriety; to know his name on people’s lips ... see it dragged through the mud of the daily press ... himself branded as a bungler, a botcher!. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
The other is a word botcher. From Wordnik.com. [You Have The Right Of Way] Reference
Virginie, a botcher that cannot design a new shape, while I have ideas of my own, I have. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lost Illusions] Reference
He's a botcher. From Wordnik.com. [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference
Greene, and called him in accordance with the amenities of the times, "a wilde head, ful of mad braine and a thousand crotchets; a scholler, a discourser, a courtier, a ruffian, a gamester, a lover, a souldier, a trauailer, a merchant, a broker, an artificer, a botcher, a pettifogger. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
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