pamphleteer

plural pamphleteers

1. A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.

   The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.

   1710 September 13 – 1713 June 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter XLIII.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC

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   but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.

   1891, Oscar Wilde, Intentions

   "It's kind of unfortunate that it depends on spectacular violence by somebody, or whoever it is, to get it into print," said that man, John Zerzan, a leading pamphleteer and self-described anarchist and technophobe who has become a guru of sorts for anti-technology leftists.

   1995 May 7, Kenneth B. Noble, “Prominent Anarchist Finds Unsought Ally in Serial Bomber”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

present singular third person pamphleteers · participle present pamphleteering · participle past pamphleteered · past pamphleteered

1. intransitiveTo publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.