pamphleteer

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Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/

Noun

pamphleteer (plural pamphleteers)

1. a writer or publisher of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist
   • 1713: Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella

     The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.

   • 1891: Oscar Wilde, Intentions

     but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.

Translations

• Portuguese: panfleteiro

Verb

pamphleteer (pamphleteers, present participle pamphleteering; past and past participle pamphleteered)

1. (intransitive) To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.

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