phrasemongery
English
Etymology
{{suffix|en|[[phrasemonger|y}}
Noun
phrasemongery (uncountable)
- Elaborate or bombastic speech or writing.
- 1849, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age - Volume 20, page 299:
- He may sometimes exaggerate the truth for the sake of the expression, sometimes perhaps sacrifice it; but he never degenerates into mere phrasemongery.
- 2001, J. Scheibert, Frederic Trautmann, A Prussian Observes the American Civil War, →ISBN:
- Count among its faults the phrasemongery that ran riot a while back.
- 2010, Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz: 1829-1852, →ISBN, page 350:
- Indeed, high-sounding speeches and scenes of stormy and tumultuous excitement were not lacking; but with all this, as it seemed to me, there was too little of an earnest and thoughtful exchange of opinions between eminent men, and too much of theatrical attitudinizing and of declamatory phrasemongery.
- 2017, Aleksandr F. Kerensky, The Catastrophe: Kerensky’s Own Story of the Russian Revolution, →ISBN:
- Altogether, the obvious incongruity between Russia's actual situation and the interminable repetition by boasting officials of their tactless phrasemongery about complete victory over Germany and Russia's hereditary mission with regard to Turkey infuriated the exhausted masses.
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