Meaning of spoil-paper | Babel Free

Definitions

An unskilled writer.

obsolete

Examples

“Certain persons have⟳ reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have⟳ been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have⟳ been hinted at as their natal place⟳. But the Author consents to spare⟳ them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times.”

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