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Definition of "pamphleteer" [pam•phlet•eer]

  • A writer of pamphlets or other short works taking a partisan stand on an issue. (noun)
  • To write and publish pamphlets. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pamphleteer" in a sentence
  • "Or you can take the approach of an old fashioned pamphleteer, which is what blogging has mainly been up to now."
  • "Voltairean spirit had in the Press of the Left a representative who was very formidable to religious ideas namely the pamphleteer"
  • "He was by calling a pamphleteer, and seems not to have been aware that the sharpness of style and of temper which may be tolerated in a pamphlet is inexcusable in a state paper."