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  • noun Plural form of graffitist.

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Examples

  • Many 'graffitists' are legitimate artists who feel marginalised and persecuted.

    northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star 2009

  • While his black-and-white pictures—more flattering than Diane Arbus's work, less glamorizing than Richard Avedon's—might seem a little tame in an age when it's hard to avoid photographic celebrations of plucky graffitists, defiant gang-bangers and regular folk who live around them, they had a real edge back then.

    The Edge of a New Frontier Peter Plagens 2012

  • As the Portobello climbed and dipped northwards and passed the old Electric Cinema, the decoration of shops and adornment of stalls became more colourful and bizarre, as if an army of graffitists or students of Banksy had been called in to make this the brightest market in London.

    Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

  • The graffitists come and the pickpockets and the serious thieves.

    Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

  • Ismael spoke of a companion wall for dead graffitists, flashing his wasted smile.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • A spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents town halls across the country, insisted: Environment volunteers are people who care passionately about their local area and want to protect it from vandals, graffitists and fly tippers.

    Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • And it should have been her who defended the graffitists, daredevil kids who put color and spunk into the seismic blur of a rush-hour Monday.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And it should have been her who defended the graffitists, daredevil kids who put color and spunk into the seismic blur of a rush-hour Monday.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Ismael spoke of a companion wall for dead graffitists, flashing his wasted smile.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And it should have been her who defended the graffitists, daredevil kids who put color and spunk into the seismic blur of a rush-hour Monday.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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