sloganeer

English

Etymology

slogan + -eer, US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1]

Noun

sloganeer (plural sloganeers)

  1. (politics) Someone who makes and spreads slogans.
    • 2012 January 17, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
      As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.

Verb

sloganeer (third-person singular simple present sloganeers, present participle sloganeering, simple past and past participle sloganeered)

  1. (politics) To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
    • 2007 February 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Silence of the Rational Center”, in New York Times:
      At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.

References

  1. Paul Dickson (2013) Words from the White House, Courier Dover Publications, published 2020, →ISBN, page 146

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