Pamphleteer

Quick meaning: Pamphleteer is a noun meaning A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.

Meaning

A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.

Example Sentences

The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.

but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.

"It's kind of unfortunate that it depends on spectacular violence by somebody, or whoever it is, to get it into print," said that man, John Zerzan, a leading pamphleteer and self-described anarchist and technophobe who has become a guru of sorts for anti-technology leftists.

Word Forms

• pamphleteers
• pamphleteering
• pamphleteered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pulpeteer, peddler, promulgator, propagandist, billposter, propagandee.

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