sloganeern.
/sləʊɡəˈnɪə/ Originally U.S.
One who devises or who uses slogans.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [noun] > slogan or catchword > one who uses
sloganeer1922
sloganizer1974
1922 R. Connell in Sat. Evening Post (U.S.) 29 Apr. 100/2 (heading) Once a sloganeer.
1935 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 11 May 30/3 The day may come when a West Coast sloganeer will proudly proclaim, ‘If it isn't at San Marino, it isn't a book.’
1963 D. Ogilvy Confessions Advertising Man vii. 127 Posters are for sloganeers.
1971 N.Z. Listener 31 May 5 ‘Sloganeers’—young, sometimes older people, who do not analyse a problem but pick up a current catchcry.
1978 Times 7 Aug. 12/4 Questions are a favourite device of envelope sloganeers. ‘Is he to be our next President?’ asked one.
Derivatives
sloganeer v. intransitive, to express oneself in slogans (now usually in a political context).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > engage in politics [verb (intransitive)] > use slogans
sloganeer1944
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [verb (intransitive)] > express oneself in slogans
sloganeer1944
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Mar. 6/6 To speak of the German dead in terms of carpets is not to exaggerate or ‘sloganeer’.
1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics iii. v. 265 What she does ‘become’ is only a nonentity, utterly incorporated into Birkin, his single follower, proselytizing and sloganeering.
slogaˈneering n. and adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [adjective] > using slogans
sloganeering1941
society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > a political slogan or expression > use of
sloganeering1941
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [adjective] > of or relating to expressing slogans
sloganizing1940
slogan-shouting1940
sloganeering1941
sloganized1970
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [noun] > slogan or catchword > expressing oneself in slogans
sloganeering1941
1941 H. S. Johnson Hell-bent for War ii. 37 In this modern sloganeering day,..the constant repetition of a lie has become the..weapon of the totalitarian propagandist.
1941 H. S. Johnson Hell-bent for War iv. 85 We are..getting all ready to do it all over again with hardly a variation in timing sequence or superficial sloganeering.
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Oct. 18/3 Eastern Germany's tireless Communists, still a bit breathless from the ten-day marathon of sloganeering over the new ‘East German Republic’, [etc.].
1967 Philos. Rev. 76 105 An area where superficiality and sloganeering too often hold sway.
1978 New Statesman 27 Oct. 556/3 The islanders have learnt to deploy the bullying sloganeering and empty hard sell of ‘Westminster’ politics.
1981 Encounter Apr. 48/2 To distinguish truth from sloganeering licence and exaggeration.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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