penny-a-liner
[pen-ee-uh-lahy-ner]
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noun Chiefly British Archaic.
a hack writer.
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Origin of penny-a-liner
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Historical Examples of penny-a-liner
"Clear enough, I think," said Van, when I raised my eyes from the protracted periods of the penny-a-liner.
That aspiration and fervor are now so much the rule that the least penny-a-liner can judge the new poet?
The Journal of Arthur StirlingUpton Sinclair
The penny-a-liner has long been the butt of a heartless world.
About LondonJ. Ewing Ritchie
Mr. Hughes speaks, in the style of a penny-a-liner, of Tennyson's "amazing and unparalleled popular influence."
Flowers of FreethoughtGeorge W. Foote
Motherhood to-day is on the lips of every penny-a-liner, every social patchworker and political climber.
The Social Significance of the Modern DramaEmma Goldman
penny-a-liner
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