GHOSTWRITER Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

ghostwriter

noun

Definition of ghostwriter

as in scribbler

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Recent Examples of ghostwriter Throughout Goblikon’s rise to fame, Rispoli has remained his ghostwriter. — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 But by the end of the movie, Verity is dead and her publishing empire has been usurped by her ghostwriter. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 Vanity Fair’s global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, recently received an unsolicited email from a ghostwriter trying to sell him their services. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026 Perhaps outsourcing an op-ed to a chatbot isn’t materially different from outsourcing it to a ghostwriter. — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026 While the defense has hinted that Davis' ghostwriter, Yusef Jah, fictionalized some details and that the defendant wasn't involved in the crime, prosecutors have Jah's name on their witness list. — Michael Ruiz , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Ava Gardner, The Secret Conversations The actress was contracted to write a memoir, but after hours of conversation with her ghostwriter, changed her mind; this book is drawn from those tapes. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026 Joe Biden sued the DOJ to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 27 May 2026 Former President Joe Biden is suing the Justice Department in an attempt to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts from private interviews with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 27 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghostwriter

Noun

The internet and smartphone threatened to stamp out scribblers entirely.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.

— Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025

Definition of scribbler

Noun

But that moment wouldn’t hold so much power if Pawlikowski—with the help of his cowriter, Hendrik Handloegten—weren’t so skilled at sketching in the feathery details leading up to it.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
As the cowriter, director, and star of the Leonard Bernstein drama, Cooper was ever-present during the awards campaign.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of cowriter

Noun

Decades later, long after Hemingway’s death, in 1961, Carlos Baker, Hemingway’s biographer, told Conrad about some of the letters deriding him.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Musk outlined this vision during a conversation with biographer Walter Isaacson on The Builders podcast.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of biographer

Noun

In 2020, the New York Times identified a network of 1,300 news sites that paid freelance writers to produce biased content for Republican groups and corporate public relations firms.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Between 2024 and 2026, first-time directors or writers made more than a third of Netflix’s Korean titles.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of writer

Noun

But David Neumark, a UC Irvine economist and coauthor of the PPIC study, said the findings indicate California could be ripe for a broad regulatory review.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Justin Wilson, an associate professor of physics at Louisiana State University and a study coauthor, explained that random interventions could suppress otherwise unpredictable behavior.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of coauthor

Noun

But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.

— Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.

— Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020

Definition of hagiographer

Noun

Aaron Lee Tasjan, a close friend of Snider’s, will lead a tribute to the witty wordsmith that will also include John Craigie, Elizabeth Cook, Chuck Prophet, Steve Poltz and other guests.

— Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2026
Politically savvy, wickedly and playfully witty, and in close touch with humanity’s many facets, Roger Simon was among the most admired newspaper columnists of his generation at a time when that world was rich in that species of wordsmiths.

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of wordsmith

Noun

Drawing district lines to effectively disenfranchise voters and ensure a seat in Congress for some partisan hack was a dark-of-night sort of thing that the public hated, not an honorable practice for upstanding citizens.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
More styling hacks, as shown here, that’ll keep the look feeling modern and cool?

— Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2026

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