Phrase-monger

Translation of "phrase-monger" into Russian

Noun

phrase-monger

phrase-mongers pl

countable, often derogatory

The minister was dismissed as a mere phrase-monger by the press.

Пресса назвала министра простым фразёром.

Many considered the author a talented phrase-monger rather than a thinker.

Многие считали автора талантливым пустословом, а не мыслителем.

Verb

phrase-monger

phrase-mongers

phrase-mongered Past Simple / Past Participle

phrase-mongering Gerund

rare, intransitive

пустословить

The candidate phrase-mongered for an hour without answering the question.

Кандидат пустословил целый час, так и не ответив на вопрос.

Additional translations

фразёрствовать

Noun

A person who habitually uses grandiose, bombastic, or empty phrases in speech or writing.

The speech was crafted by a phrase-monger more concerned with flourish than facts.

Verb

To indulge in the use of grandiose, bombastic, or empty phrases.

During the debate he merely phrase-mongered about liberty without proposing real solutions.