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muckraker collapse: one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)

quibbler collapse: a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

cognoscente collapse

nitpicker collapse: someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms

scholiast collapse: a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

commentator collapse: a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day

reviewer collapse: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

caviling collapse: quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

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critic collapse: someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments; anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something; a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

hypercritical collapse: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

connoisseur collapse: an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts

copywriter collapse: a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy

essayist collapse: a writer of literary works

censor collapse: a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable; someone who censures or condemns; subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

captious collapse: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

diarist collapse: someone who keeps a diary or journal

coauthor collapse: a writer who collaborates with others in writing something

annalist collapse: a historian who writes annals

overcritical collapse

novelist collapse: one who writes novels

scenario writer collapse

scriptwriter collapse: someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas

composer collapse: someone who composes music as a profession

mudslinger collapse

slanderer collapse

disparager collapse

debunker collapse

dramatist collapse: someone who writes plays

writer collapse: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay); a person who is able to write and has written something

litterateur collapse

editor collapse: a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

stickler collapse: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

humorist collapse: someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

collaborator collapse: an associate who works with others toward a common goal; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force

columnist collapse: a journalist who writes editorials

cryptologist collapse

translator collapse: a program that translates one programming language into another; a person who translates written messages from one language to another

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