Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A violent or gesticulating preacher; one who employs violent action to give the effect or appearance of earnestness to his sermons.
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- noun a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
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Examples
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Tom Hooper's monarch-ish drama about King George VI's struggles to overcome a stammer on the eve of the second world war is a deftly shot, beautifully acted, curiously moving tub-thumper buoyed by a classy bromance.
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Like many people who count "Hitch" among their friends, I have watched with a certain degree of dismay how this lifelong champion of left-wing, anti-imperialist causes, this scourge of armed American hubris, this erstwhile booster of Vietcong and Sandinistas, this ex-Trot who delighted in calling his friends and allies "comrades," ended up as a loud drummer boy for President George W. Bush's war in Iraq, a tub-thumper for neoconservatism, and a strident American patriot.
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Like many people who count "Hitch" among their friends, I have watched with a certain degree of dismay how this lifelong champion of left-wing, anti-imperialist causes, this scourge of armed American hubris, this erstwhile booster of Vietcong and Sandinistas, this ex-Trot who delighted in calling his friends and allies "comrades," ended up as a loud drummer boy for President George W. Bush's war in Iraq, a tub-thumper for neoconservatism, and a strident American patriot.
Christopher Hitchens'"Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Like many people who count "Hitch" among their friends, I have watched with a certain degree of dismay how this lifelong champion of left-wing, anti-imperialist causes, this scourge of armed American hubris, this erstwhile booster of Vietcong and Sandinistas, this ex-Trot who delighted in calling his friends and allies "comrades," ended up as a loud drummer boy for President George W. Bush's war in Iraq, a tub-thumper for neoconservatism, and a strident American patriot.
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But the trouble that is brewing is from the chief union tub-thumper, soon-to-be Prime Minister, psychologically-flawed Gordon Brown.
Trouble afoot Jeff 2007
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Many on the right hope that hot-button issues like abortion, contraception, school prayer and creationism will keep people voting against their own pocketbooks and for the tub-thumper issues that the religious right feeds on.
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Moore's latest documentary drew tumultuous applause at the Venice film festival, suggesting that the veteran tub-thumper has lost none of his power to whip up a response.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Flick Rips into Crimes of Wall Street 2009
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Flick Rips into Crimes of Wall Street 2009
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How thankful we ought to be that the historian, with his long sonorous words — flagitiosorum ac facinorosorum — did not make of our perfervid apothecary a mere tub-thumper of Corinthian prose!
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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How thankful we ought to be that the historian, with his long sonorous words — flagitiosorum ac facinorosorum — did not make of our perfervid apothecary a mere tub-thumper of Corinthian prose!
Henrik Ibsen 2008
mialuthien commented on the word tub-thumper
tub-thumper – a speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter
July 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word tub-thumper
See also tub.
May 15, 2018