penny-a-liner

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  1. One who furnishes news and other matter to the public journals as it were at a penny a line or some other small price; hence, any poor writer for hire; a hack-writer: so called in contempt.

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  • "Why, he's nothing but a penny-a-liner, without the penny. —  Cap'n Warren's Wards
  • And I won't be called a 'dama' for any penny-a-liner living. " —  Thelma
  • That would not do; _à bas_ all such penny-a-liner pretence! —  Demos
  • Rowlands at his best was but an indifferent poet, -- hardly more than a penny-a-liner. —  The Bride
  • Mall to come over and speak to poor Brown, the young penny-a-liner. —  The Book of Snobs
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