Definition of Phrasemonger

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrasemonger

phrasal verbs
phrasally
phrase
phrase-book
phrase book
phrase books
phrase structure
phrasebook
phrasebooks
phrased
phraseless
phrasemaker
phrasemakers
phrasemaking
phrasemakings
phrasemonger (current term)
phrasemongering
phrasemongers
phraseogram
phraseograms
phraseological
phraseologies
phraseologist
phraseologists
phraseology
phraser
phrasers
phrases
phrasier
phrasiest

Literary usage of Phrasemonger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"&c., these are but part of the stock-in-trade of the professional politician and parliamentary phrasemonger ; in the minds of the masses they awaken no ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"He is not a seer, or a prophet, or an enthusiast; but a clever phrasemonger and a disappointed place-hunter, who, in his extreme verbal 'solicitude about ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"He is not a seer, or a prophet, or an enthusiast ; but a clever phrasemonger and a disappointed place-hunter, who, in his extreme verbal solicitude about ..."

4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... or phrasemonger. He was too intense, too earnest, to employ the cheap and paltry decorations of discourse. He never reconnoitred a hostile position, ..."

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