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penny-a-liner
[ pen-ee-uh-lahy-ner ]
noun
, Chiefly British Archaic.
- a hack writer.
penny-a-liner
noun
- rare.a hack writer or journalist
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Word History and Origins
Origin of penny-a-liner1
1825–35; penny-a-line (of writing) paid for at the rate of a penny per line + -er 1
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Example Sentences
Mr. Hughes speaks, in the style of a penny-a-liner, of Tennyson's "amazing and unparalleled popular influence."
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Could any Sultan, or even the "Oriental Despot" of a radical penny-a-liner, be implored in more abject terms?
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It is still spoken of as a minor matter of giving "penny-a-liner" journalists "interviews."
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Not a day passes but some scurrilous penny-a-liner springs some yarn, some beastly innuendo.
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"Verse ready writ by some penny-a-liner for any wench with cheap smiles," says M. Radisson aloud.
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