phrasemaker
Americannoun
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a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
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a person who makes catchy but often meaningless or empty statements.
Other Word Forms
- phrasemaking noun
Etymology
Origin of phrasemaker
Example Sentences
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Choice phrasemaker and Hackney laureate Sinclair ventures to the US on the trail of the Beats.
From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013
The humour was sometimes juvenile, and the shows lacked structure, but he was already a great phrasemaker and his outsider, bruised-idealist worldview was compelling.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2012
College football, beset by cheating scandals, had many powerful enemies but perhaps no one was a more fetching phrasemaker than Hutchins, who in 1929 became the university’s fifth president.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2011
In the stripped-down area where country meets folk, sometimes called Americana, there hasn’t been a phrasemaker as wryly quotable since when — the heyday of Kris Kristofferson and John Prine?
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2010
The poet is a "phrasemaker"; true; but show us the man in these days who is more than a phrasemaker!
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
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