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n. - A writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Belgian soldier, fighting for a truth that is at the very heart and depth of all things true, puts the mere wordmonger to shame.
  • That a man of More's massive learning, noble eloquence, and divine genius should need the testimony of a mere elegant wordmonger like Blair, seems ludicrous enough; and...
  • Fred: For a wordmonger, you don’t have a very good command of words.
  • And I be a “wordmonger.”
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