Elmer Gantry

[ gan-tree ]

noun

1. a novel (1927) by Sinclair Lewis.

Elmer Gantry

1. (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.

Example Sentences

Check out this 2003 clip in which this soft-spoken Jewish pischer was transformed into Elmer Gantry.

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At first Lear thought of making a feature film satirizing Swaggart and his ilk—sort of an updated Elmer Gantry.

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Palin is a beauty-queen Elmer Gantry, outdoing Stephen Colbert in cheesy, braying nationalism.

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