phrasemongers

To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds?

Dubliners 2003

Constant in his hatred of deliberative assemblies, which he had often termed collections of babblers, ideologists, and phrasemongers, Napoleon, on his return to

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

"Mr. Lieutenant Zverkov," I began, "let me tell you that I hate phrases, phrasemongers and men in corsets ... that's the first point, and there is a second one to follow it."

Notes from the Underground 1918

To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds?

Dubliners James Joyce 1911

Lady Agnes or Julia Dallow or Peter Sherringham that he was not most at home in some dusky, untidy, dimly-imagined suburb of "culture," a region peopled by unpleasant phrasemongers who thought him a gentleman and who had no human use but to be held up in the comic press -- which was, moreover, probably restrained by decorum from touching upon the worst of their aberrations.

The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

All discussion of the possibility of re-establishing peace instead of everlasting war -- is the pernicious sentimentality of phrasemongers.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy 1869

"Mr. Lieutenant Zverkov," I began, "let me tell you that I hate phrases, phrasemongers and men in corsets ... that's the first point, and there is a second one to follow it."

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

"That will not do for you," he said; the members are a set of babblers and phrasemongers, whom I mean to get rid of.

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

Constant in his hatred of deliberative assemblies, which he had often termed collections of babblers, ideologists, and phrasemongers, Napoleon, on his return to

Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

“Mr. Lieutenant Zverkov,” I began, “let me tell you that I hate phrases, phrasemongers and men in corsets ... that’s the first point, and there is a second one to follow it.”

Notes from Underground 2003