(n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
Example Sentences:
(1) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
(2) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
(3) At moments, she sounds like an advertising copyist for Mills & Boon.
(4) Apple can portray it as a looter of intellectual property, a copyist, an unimaginative follower.
(5) Sniffin' Glue wasn't the first fanzine – Punk (which famously coined the genre's moniker) started self-publishing in New York six months earlier – but its primitive Xerox'n'Sellotape aesthetic was the perfect medium to capture British punk's early energy, and to inspire a generation of copyists.
(6) They became skilled calligraphers and, hailing from far and wide, they would work as copyists to pay for their digs.
(7) Sherman had started out painting, and is still a good copyist.
(8) This isn’t globalisation: this is Big Finance and its copyists, trampling over workers, families, communities.
(9) On that longest and most crowded of streets there were dozens of dealers, auction houses, restorers and copyists, art suppliers, exhibition halls and galleries.
Scrivener
Definition:
(n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
(n.) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
(n.) A writing master.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(2) It’s probably safer to reject this scheme,” says Scrivener.
(3) * In Chancery, having noted My Lady Dedlock's interest, Mr Tulkinghorn is enquiring about the identity of the scrivener.
(4) I have seven days.’” “My reaction at the time was: ‘You’re just talking crazy,’” Scriven, 22, told the Washington Post.
(5) Unjust debt, says Scrivener, is often “dictator debt” – money lent by rich countries to poor countries ruled by strongmen, who commonly used it to finance military ventures or vast follies.
(6) I don’t think he’s always there.” Scriven also told NBC News that Roof may have changed his plans after deciding the college campus was a harder target to access.
(7) A few years ago - Bartleby the Scrivener should have been living at that hour - I had the idea of recording the titles and authors of books as I read them.
(8) But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."
(9) Tim Gore, Oxfam’s global head of policy for food and climate change says: “They are two separate issues and just merging the two, you could argue, is one way to let developed countries off the hook.” “It’s definitely an interesting proposal, but I think it’s fundamentally unjust,” says Alex Scrivener, a policy officer for the World Development Movement .
(10) Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat leader of Sheffield council, said: "Maybe in three or four years time, people will look back and say they were a little bit harsh to the Liberal Democrats."
(11) Shirley Scrivener Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire • If we’re going to abolish noxious two-word phrases, how about “throwing money”, from any politician refusing to fund a service properly (eg David Prior, Letters, 12 November ).
(12) From as far away as Edinburgh and Cornwall, by car, train and bus, the crowd had started marching from the Embankment at 11.30am – and tail-enders such as Graham Scrivener and Flora Wilson, both Hackney teachers, only reached the park gates at five, long after most marchers had started streaming home.
(13) He just said he was going to hurt a bunch of people” at the college of Charleston, Scriven told AP.
(14) Liberal Democrat spokesman Lord Scriven said Labour had a shameful record on midwifery when in government, overseeing a critical shortage of staff.
(15) Richard Scrivener, a former assistant strength and conditioning coach at Northampton Saints rugby club, says that while the benefits are clear, Tabatas are an addition, not a replacement, to a favoured sport or training method.
(16) David Scriven is contemplating a move from the home where he and his wife brought up six children.
(17) "With the financial sector shrouded in secrecy, it will be very hard to do anything more than estimate the true extent of involvement that UK financial and investment institutions have in fossil fuel projects in places such as Indonesia ," said Alex Scrivener, author of the WDM report.
(18) But Scriven and another friend, Joey Meek, were concerned enough to go out to Roof’s car and retrieve his .45-caliber handgun, hiding it in an air-conditioning vent of a mobile home until they all sobered up.
(19) Another leading QC, Anthony Scrivener, called Mr Carman "simply the best cross-examiner in the business".
(20) Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," describing in telling detail the response of a sympathetic lawyer to profound and pervasive negativism in his legal scribe, is discussed as a literary analogy to the analyst-analysand dyad.