sloganeer · noun — someone who makes and spreads slogans. It carries an Arena rating of 1478, earned across 73 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sloganeer ranks #1,306 of 17,201 for Funniest Words, #1,627 of 17,176 for Most Incisive Words, #2,040 of 17,188 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #3,525 of 17,187 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “sloganeer” is a great word
SLOGANEER — [Noun/Verb] One who coins or promotes political slogans, often substituting catchy phrases for substantive argument. From slogan (a Scottish Gaelic battle cry, from sluagh-ghairm, meaning 'army shout') + the English agentive suffix -eer (indicating one who engages in a specified activity). First attested in 1922 in U.S. English and popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unlike a rhetorician, who builds a case, or a polemicist, who wages a war of ideas, the sloganeer forges a weapon of mass repetition. It is the three-word chant that drowns out nuance, the bumper sticker that stands in for a philosophy, the hashtag that masquerades as a conversation—the modern, hollow echo of the ancient battle cry.
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Etymology
From slogan + -eer, US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
noun
- Someone who makes and spreads slogans.e.g.“As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.” — 2012 January 17, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
verb
- To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
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