pulpiteer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pulpiteer
Example Sentences
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These words came from no Sunday pulpiteer, but from the assistant to the president of the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is easy enough to impose on an ignorant congregation, and Dr. Hitchens is probably aware of the lengths to which a reckless pulpiteer may carry his mendacity.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
I write sermons in sport, he says; but sermons by a fellow-sinner, not by a dogmatic pulpiteer, not by a censor or a cynic.
From Horace by William Tuckwell
Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.
From Cowper by Goldwin Smith
Mark how the stock words of the pulpiteer, "transgressor," "worldly lusts," "dreadful," "awful," "perdition" stalk fiercely through the sermon of the youthful saint or sinner!
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson
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