pamphleteer

[ pam-fli-teer ]

/ ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər /

noun

a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.

verb (used without object)

to write and issue pamphlets.

Nearby words

pampeluna, pamper, pampero, pamph., pamphlet, pamphleteer, pamphletize, pamphrey, pamphylia, pampiniform, pampiniform plexus

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

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Examples from the Web for pamphleteer

My mother was a pamphleteer by temperament, and she knew that sedition and controversy are fired by printed matter.
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A miser, or a pamphleteer at strife with the world at large, must surely have invented these fortifications.
Cousin Pons|Honore de Balzac
In fact, he was not so much a journalist, in the proper meaning of that term, as a pamphleteer or writer of leading articles.
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There is for him as novelist or pamphleteer no principle but expediency, no rule of conduct but temporal advantage.
Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870|Various

He also wrote much for the Government, his pungent and persuasive style fitting him for the career of a pamphleteer.
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The spectre of the great Douglas Trial loomed large in the eyes of the pamphleteer and the hero of the riot.
James Boswell|William Keith Leask

British Dictionary definitions for pamphleteer

pamphleteer

/ (ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə) /

noun

a person who writes or issues pamphlets, esp of a controversial nature

verb

(intr) to write or issue pamphlets

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