PAMPHLETEER Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

pamphleteer

noun

Definition of pamphleteer

as in essayist

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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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Noun

The itinerary, The Soul of Japan, Living Like a Local by Pico Iyer, was shaped by the acclaimed travel writer and essayist, who has lived in Japan for nearly four decades.

— Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2026
Sun Yung Shin is an award-winning poet and essayist who was born in Korea, grew up in the Chicago area, and is currently based in Minneapolis.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of essayist

Noun

Johnson plays Lowen Ashleigh, a down-on-her-luck ghost writer hired to complete a bestselling thriller series for the novelist Verity Crawford (Hathaway) after she is rendered comatose in an accident.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026
The tools of a novelist are totally different than the tools of a dramatist.

— Max Gao, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of novelist

Noun

The tools of a novelist are totally different than the tools of a dramatist.

— Max Gao, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

Josie Long, whose credits include Skins, and playwright and screenwriter Holly Phillips, whose credits include The Athena, Get Even and Dance Academy, are adapting the books for television.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
The cultural demons a 34-year-old playwright was conjuring a century ago rise up as dark reflections for our own.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

Asco’s work remained in relative obscurity — living in local mythology through storytellers like Ignacio — for decades.

— Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Sundance Institute’s documentary film program supports nonfiction storytellers at all stages of their projects and careers via financial, creative and strategic assistance.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of storyteller

Noun

The prolific Romanian satirist Radu Jude is back at NYFF with a new piece of sociological shrapnel.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2026
Three hundred years ago, the satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of satirist

Noun

Only the boy’s early obsession with the keyboard—initially discouraged by his parents—pointed to his destiny as a globe-trotting concert pianist, a composer in the major classical genres, and a fluent essayist and autobiographer to boot.

— Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 29 Aug. 2026
This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.

— Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024

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