sloganeer

American  

[sloh-guh-neer] / ˌsloʊ gəˈnɪər /

noun

1. a person who creates and uses slogans frequently.

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verb (used without object)

1. to create or use slogans, especially in an effort to change public opinion.

sloganeer British  

/ ˌsləʊɡəˈnɪə /

noun

1. a person who coins or employs slogans frequently

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verb

1. (intr) to coin or employ slogans so as to sway opinion

Etymology

Origin of sloganeer

First recorded in 1920–25; slogan + -eer

Example Sentences

But it refuses to play into the easy tendency to sloganeer.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020

He saw his wall-building neighbor as an unthinking sloganeer, piling rocks atop one another “like an old-stone savage armed.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2019

Charli XCX has turned out to be the Occam’s razor of pop: a sloganeer and strategist, ruthlessly terse.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017

Through statute, regulation, or precedent, most states bar candidates for any office from using their names to sloganeer on the ballot.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2012

To read Morrison as an allegorist or a sloganeer is to overlook completely the power of her art.

From Time Magazine Archive