wordmongering

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

wordmonger +‎ -ing

Noun[edit]

wordmongering (countable and uncountable, plural wordmongerings)

  1. Synonym of wordmongery
    • 1849, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, A View of the Art of Colonization, page 9:
      Ignorance implies real indifference, however copious the wordmongering.
    • 1961, United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Documents on Disarmament, page 352:
      Powers are seeking as before to drown the problem of disarmament in endless and futile wordmongering.
    • 2008, Harold Bloom, Herman Melville:
      Melville "repels" here; he is guilty of "wordmongering," prolixity, and recourse to "marvellous" yarns that erode what is usefully "probable" in the narrative.