phrase-monger

He was not so much annoyed that he had not received the post, that he had been conspicuously passed over; but it was incomprehensible, amazing to him that they did not see that the wordy phrase-monger

Anna Karenina 2003

The women of every degree (to borrow a phrase from that great phrase-monger, Horace Walpole) "cried quarts;" and the procession to the churchyard -- that very churchyard to which he had himself attended so many of his patients -- was now followed by all of them that remained alive.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number Various

He was not so much annoyed that he had not received the post, that he had been conspicuously passed over; but it was incomprehensible, amazing to him that they did not see that the wordy phrase-monger Stremov was the last man fit for it.

Chapter XVII. Part IV 1917

The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the ready talker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage, sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the body politic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them.

IV. Citizenship in a Republic 1913

Ollivier, the Premier, I had long despised; it did not need much political acumen to see that he was an ambitious and conceited phrase-monger, who would let himself be led by the nose by those who had disarmed him.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the ready talker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage, sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the body politic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them.

African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Premier, I had long despised; it did not need much political acumen to see that he was an ambitious and conceited phrase-monger, who would let himself be led by the nose by those who had disarmed him.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

If they are worth anything at all, they will declare that England sha'n't go in for the chance of war just to please that Jew phrase-monger.

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

He determined to put himself in evidence at the Ministry and to prove to the phrase-monger

His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

He was not so much annoyed that he had not received the post, that he had been conspicuously passed over; but it was incomprehensible, amazing to him that they did not see that the wordy phrase-monger Stremov was the last man fit for it.

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869