blue-pencil
to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
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How to use blue-pencil in a sentence
Then my secretary types up my material, prints it out, and then I revise using a 0.7 mm blue pencil.
The prince took up the pamphlet which he had been busy underlining with red and blue pencil.
Black Diamonds | Mr JkaiSunday newspaper specials came home with "return" written in blue pencil across the neatly typed page.
The White Shield | Myrtle ReedHe selected the eggs with great care, marking some very choice ones with a blue pencil.
Toots and his Friends | Kate Tannatt WoodsYou have not written a single letter since you came here—only a post-card, and that you wrote with a blue pencil.
Creditors; Pariah | August Strindberg
"Dig up some sand, pard, and fling it into the cinder-sifter while I write out the caution in blue pencil," said Stanley.
British Dictionary definitions for blue pencil
deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
(tr) to alter or delete parts of (a book, film, etc), esp to censor
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