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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A professional writer; one who makes a business of writing.

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Examples

  • I was benevolently commended by a vituperative ink-slinger, Daniel

    The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

  • Piddie, a narrow-gauge, dime-pinchin 'ink-slinger, doin' the bull act like he was

    Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

  • He came from a sunny land where all the women were beautiful and all the men brave, and he would rather die a thousand deaths than permit any obscure ink-slinger to impeach his fair fame.

    Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond 1890

  • From shrewd Southern businessman Augustus Sinclair to shady ink-slinger Stanley Poole, these fresh faces offer unique insight on Rapture's eventual downfall, and the ability to actually meet some of these characters face to face for some of the game's weightier moral choices really helps solidify Rapture as more than just a combat arena.

    GamePro.com 2010

  • From shrewd Southern businessman Augustus Sinclair to shady ink-slinger Stanley Poole, these fresh faces offer unique insight on Rapture's eventual downfall, and the ability to actually meet some of these characters face to face for some of the game's weightier moral choices really helps solidify Rapture as more than just a combat arena.

    GamePro.com 2010

  • Crowe's ink-slinger may successfully push his deadlines to the far side of the International Date Line, but for journalists the movie's irresistible hook is the death-of-newsprint back-story - which comes complete with a utopian vision of a brave new world in which frisky cyber-snoops are eager Girl Fridays to their typewriting seniors.

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • "Well, I mean, you know, he doesn't look like an ink-slinger; he looks like some sort of a doer.

    Under the Country Sky Frances [Illustrator] Rogers 1912

  • I was benevolently commended by a vituperative ink-slinger, Daniel O'Shea, in his letter to the Sunday Democrat in 1886, but none of those he blackguarded were in the least inconvenienced by 'the roll of his tongue,' as the saying is: ” 'A vast number of the Irish have been heartlessly persecuted by the most despotic landlords of Ireland, such as Lord Kenmare, Herbert,

    The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904

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