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• n  a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning

• Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musi cal entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of .
• A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.
• O'Casey may be a "roguish wordmonger," but so was Goebbels and Pravda .