pamphleteer

American  

[pam-fli-teer] / ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər /

noun

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

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verb (used without object)

1. to write and issue pamphlets.

pamphleteer British  

/ ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə /

noun

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

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verb

1. (intr) to write or issue pamphlets

Etymology

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

Example Sentences

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pamphleteer

James Otis, a lawyer, patriot, and pamphleteer whose influence was cited by both Samuel Adams and John Adams, suffered bouts of “insanity.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2023

Distinguished biographer Andrew Roberts is a man on a mission: to prove that King George III of England was neither a tyrant nor the “royal brute” denounced by pamphleteer Thomas Paine during the American Revolution.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021

The moralist pamphleteer Phillip Stubbes believed that Christmastime celebrations gave celebrants license "to do what they lust, and to folow what vanitie they will."

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2020

Thomas Paine, the revolutionary pamphleteer, has been described as the first American to be fired for leaking classified information — in 1779.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2019

To that period belongs what a pamphleteer called "Satan's Bank Note":— "Notes which a 'prentice boy could make At fifteen for a shilling."

From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson