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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scribbler.

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Examples

  • But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times.

    Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times.

    Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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