sloganeer
English
Etymology
slogan + -eer, US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1]
Noun
sloganeer (plural sloganeers)
- (politics) Someone who makes and spreads slogans.
- 2012 January 17, Aparajita De; Amrita Ghosh; Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
- As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.
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Verb
sloganeer (third-person singular simple present sloganeers, present participle sloganeering, simple past and past participle sloganeered)
- (politics) To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
- 2007 February 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Silence of the Rational Center”, in New York Times:
- At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.
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References
- Paul Dickson (2013) Words from the White House, Courier Dover Publications, published 2020, →ISBN, page 146
Anagrams
- largenose