Crossword-Solution: NIGGLER 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Ruskin, who tells us that “a sentence of ‘Modern Painters’ was often written four or five times over in my own hand, and tried in every word for perhaps an hour,—perhaps a forenoon,—before it was passed for the printer.” Each writer has his method; Scott was no stippler or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets.[**] As long as he was understood, he was almost reckless of well-constructed sentences, of the one best word for his meaning, of rounded periods.

There is here an objection which will arise in the mind of every niggler and boggler who has in the past very properly been covered with ridicule and become the butt of the waiters and stable-yard, which is, that if one is ignorant of the local sport, there is an end to the business.