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  • noun Plural form of sketchwriter.

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Examples

  • Apart from entertaining the sketchwriters, does the weekly session of political mud-wrestling matter?

    Why we should cherish prime minister's questions | Michael White 2011

  • That's the kind of cheap jibe we sketchwriters are paid to make.

    Dripping scorn on poor Nick Clegg | Simon Hoggart 2011

  • Apart from entertaining the sketchwriters, does the weekly session of political mud-wrestling matter?

    Why we should cherish prime minister's questions | Michael White 2011

  • Yet Simon's account, confirmed by other sketchwriters such as Ann Treneman and Quentin Letts, describes how Burns was gently ticked off by the Speaker during yesterday's health question time because he answered a Tory question by turning round to face the government benches.

    John Bercow is Speaker, and MPs such as Simon Burns should get over it 2010

  • For balance's sake, here's Kris Hopkins, the new Tory MP for Keighley and Ilkley, whom none of the regular sketchwriters remember hearing before yesterday: "Might it be appropriate for us to seek to recover the costs of the compensation payments from those individuals who are responsible, in particular the former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, who has made tens of millions of pounds since leaving this house?"

    Guantánamo Bay settlement shows culture wars rage on Michael White 2010

  • David Cameron and George Osborne didn't show - ostensibly because they were too busy, but I suspect because they knew how bad this would look for the sketchwriters.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • David Cameron and George Osborne didn't show - ostensibly because they were too busy, but I suspect because they knew how bad this would look for the sketchwriters.

    Events overtake the Tories 2008

  • He was one of wittiest sketchwriters that I have ever read and has been a Spectator contributer for 20 years.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Glyn Davies 2006

  • He was one of wittiest sketchwriters that I have ever read and has been a Spectator contributer for 20 years.

    Frank Johnson 1943 - 2006 Glyn Davies 2006

  • The attack and his wife's intervention are manna from heaven for sketchwriters.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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