botcher

[ UK /bˈɒt‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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How To Use botcher In A Sentence

  • Childe Harold" or "Don Juan," despite Swinburne's accusation of botchery, they would see that he really had very little time to be wicked. Without Prejudice
  • 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? Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • 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. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
  • They want shabbily compensated, compulsory labor as a means of delaying a reckoning for imperial botchery. Stop Me Before I Vote Again
  • It is a pity that with that botchery (chapuceria), that ridiculous attitude which is incompatible with the dignity of the position, Mr. Kennedy sounded that sour note and dropped a stain on an action which was motivated by a lofty humanitarian spirit. 4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
  • IV. i.60 (228,3) [This ruffian hath botch'd up] I fancy it is only a coarse expression for _made up_, as a bad taylor is called a _botcher_. and to botch is to make clumsily. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • People need to know the real version, in all its majestic whore botchery. Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
  • This is botchery and sometimes butchery, not reviewing. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  • It appeared then and it seems more the case now that Menon was covering up for the Sharm-el-Sheikh botchery of the PM, who shared his views on engaging with Pakistan on Kashmir. IntelliBriefs
  • The cutthroat competitive botchery of the someprofits are giving the real non-profits a bad name and are impeding the less-than-profits from doing the real grassroots mobilization. CounterPunch
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