Meanings
- uncountableElaborate or bombastic speech or writing.
Count among its faults the phrasemongery that ran riot a while back.
2001, J. Scheibert, Frederic Trautmann, A Prussian Observes the American Civil War, →ISBN3 more examples
He may sometimes exaggerate the truth for the sake of the expression, sometimes perhaps sacrifice it; but he never degenerates into mere phrasemongery.
1849, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age - Volume 20, page 299Indeed, high-sounding speeches and scenes of stormy and tumultuous excitement were not lacking; but with all this, as it seemed to me, there was too little of an earnest and thoughtful exchange of opinions between eminent men, and too much of theatrical attitudinizing and of declamatory phrasemongery.
2010, Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz: 1829-1852, →ISBN, page 350Altogether, the obvious incongruity between Russia's actual situation and the interminable repetition by boasting officials of their tactless phrasemongery about complete victory over Germany and Russia's hereditary mission with regard to Turkey infuriated the exhausted masses.
2017, Aleksandr F. Kerensky, The Catastrophe: Kerensky’s Own Story of the Russian Revolution, →ISBN
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