wordmongering
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wordmonger + -ing.
Noun
[edit]wordmongering (countable and uncountable, plural wordmongerings)
- 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.