Meanings
plural sloganeers
- governmentSomeone who makes and spreads slogans.
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
present singular third person sloganeers · participle present sloganeering · participle past sloganeered · past sloganeered
- governmentTo make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
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At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.
2007 February 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Silence of the Rational Center”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*slowgʰos
- Proto-Celtic*slougos
- Old Irishslóg
- Middle Irishslúag
- Scottish Gaelicsluagh
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵeh₂r-
- Proto-Celtic*garsman
- Old Irishgairm
- Scottish Gaelicgairm
- Scottish Gaelicsluagh-ghairm
- Englishsloggorne
- Englishslughorne
- Englishslughorn
- Englishslogan
- Englishsloganeer
From slogan + -eer. US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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sloganeer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sloganeer
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