Elmer Gantry

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noun

a novel (1927) by Sinclair Lewis.

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Check out this 2003 clip in which this soft-spoken Jewish pischer was transformed into Elmer Gantry.
McConnell's Fancy Farm Monster Comes Back to Haunt Him | Jonathan Miller | August 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
At first Lear thought of making a feature film satirizing Swaggart and his ilk—sort of an updated Elmer Gantry.
The Last Unreconstructed Liberal | Lloyd Grove | October 7, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Palin is a beauty-queen Elmer Gantry, outdoing Stephen Colbert in cheesy, braying nationalism.
Run, Sarah, Run! | Michelle Goldberg | July 23, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST

Cultural definitions for Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

(1927) A novel by Sinclair Lewis; the title character is a successful preacher in the Midwest. Lewis stresses the importance of insincerity and clever publicity in the rise of Gantry.

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