wordmonger

noun

Definition of wordmongernext
as in hatchet man

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  1. hatchet man
  2. scribbler
  3. biographer
  4. hack
  5. coauthor
Noun
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky, another of President Vladimir Putin’s hatchet men, advised Americans to vote for Donald Trump or risk being dragged into a nuclear war.
    Mitchell A. Orenstein, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2016
  • In the twenty-tens, the brothers took up solo careers; Malice converted to Christianity (becoming No Malice), as Pusha T became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
Definition of hatchet man
Noun
  • Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.
    Sean Michaels, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
Definition of scribbler
Noun
  • Yet, in trying to save her from being an appurtenance of Voltaire’s, her biographer disembodies her a little.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Gwenda Blair, a longtime Trump biographer, noted the Garden is associated with rock stars, celebrities and fighters – playing into the larger-than-life image Trump cultivates.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of biographer
Noun
  • What election narratives are foreign actors pushing? Expect false tales of voters tampering with mail-in ballots, non-citizens casting ballots and hacks of election infrastructure in social media posts.
    Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Grimms’ version hacks away at the French tale in other ways.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of hack
Noun
  • Among the skeptics is Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science, one of the coauthors of the 2014 study that inspired Batygin’s research.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But in a sense, this is the problem Sebo and his coauthors are raising in a nutshell.
    Saul Elbein, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of coauthor
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