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  • noun The printing and distribution of pamphlets, especially as propaganda.

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Examples

  • "Under our Constitution," he wrote, "anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent."

    Highlights from Justice Stevens' opinions 2010

  • Although an essential ingredient of good pamphleteering is a readiness to offend, the broadside must not be personal or gratuitous.

    Spilling the Beans in Paris and London 1994

  • The pamphleteering was the latest stage in a bumptious campaign in which Mr. Whatcott has barged to the head of a gay pride parade; waylaid staff at a Planned Parenthood clinic to accuse them of being "baby killers:"; and campaigned to be Edmonton's mayor on a platform of fundamentalist Christian values.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Kirk Makin 2011

  • And the proliferation of new outlets -- the rebirth of what my friend Tom Rosensteil has called the "pamphleteering" tradition -- could democratize both politics and the media.

    E. J. Dionne Jr.: The Making of Democracy 2006: How the New Media and the Old Media Could Live Together Happily and Enhance Public Life 2008

  • They were not doing anything, such as pamphleteering, petitioning, or protesting, that would interfere with commerce other than the innate fear of spending money and desire to flee that seeing the phrase "Give Peace A Chance" might induce.

    February 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • They were not doing anything, such as pamphleteering, petitioning, or protesting, that would interfere with commerce other than the innate fear of spending money and desire to flee that seeing the phrase "Give Peace A Chance" might induce.

    March 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • They were not doing anything, such as pamphleteering, petitioning, or protesting, that would interfere with commerce other than the innate fear of spending money and desire to flee that seeing the phrase "Give Peace A Chance" might induce.

    March 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • What conservatives had developed -- and it's no conspiracy, it's an old tradition that goes back to the revolutionary era, is they're dealing with the kind of pamphleteering network, its advocacy.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2003 2003

  • They were not doing anything, such as pamphleteering, petitioning, or protesting, that would interfere with commerce other than the innate fear of spending money and desire to flee that seeing the phrase "Give Peace A Chance" might induce.

    February 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • They were not doing anything, such as pamphleteering, petitioning, or protesting, that would interfere with commerce other than the innate fear of spending money and desire to flee that seeing the phrase "Give Peace A Chance" might induce.

    February 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

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