Definition of Phrasemongering

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrasemongering

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

Literary usage of Phrasemongering

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

1. Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck (1898)
"... who was devoted to the Austrian interest, as well as the phrasemongering of parliaments, associations, and the press, at that time customary, ..."

2. Bismarck, the Man & the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck (1898)
"... who was devoted to the Austrian interest, as well as the phrasemongering of parliaments, associations, and the press, at that time customary, ..."

3. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"achievements, and sternly withholds its sanction from insincere phrasemongering, from ineffectual aspiration, from unworkable conceptions, ..."

4. Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of His History by Moritz Busch (1898)
"... clear-sighted observers and diligent reporters, with a sense of what is of importance, and a distaste for phrasemongering and smart writing (of these ..."

5. The Choice of Books, and Other Literary Pieces by Frederic Harrison (1907)
"... for some hothouse hybrid of psychological analysis, for the wretched imitators of Balzac, and the jackanapes phrasemongering of some Osric of the day, ..."

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