Synonyms of pamphleteer

pamphleteer

noun

as in essayist

Related Words

• essayist
• novelist
• dramatist
• playwright
• storyteller
• satirist
• fictionist
• autobiographer
• fabulist
• memorialist
• memoirist
• poet
• biographer
• screenwriter
• scriptwriter
• scenarist
• fictioneer
• versifier
• newspaperman
• bard
• romancer
• scribbler
• journalist
• hagiographer
• reporter
• columnist
• rhymer
• blogger
• sportswriter
• ghostwriter
• proser
• prosaist
• coauthor
• prosateur
• hack
• paragrapher
• cowriter
• wordmonger
• hatchet man
• coscenarist

Dissimilar Words

• nonauthor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pamphleteer

To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2026

Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured. — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2026

Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical. — Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025

Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus. Advertisement Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans. — Time, 9 July 2025

However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024

His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate. — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024

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