| 释义 |
sloganeer orig. U.S.|sləʊgəˈnɪə(r)|
[f. slogan + -eer.]
One who devises or who uses slogans.
1922R. Connell in Sat. Even. Post (U.S.) 29 Apr. 100/2 (heading) Once a sloganeer. 1935Sat. Rev. Lit. 11 May 30/3 The day may come when a West Coast sloganeer will proudly proclaim, ‘If it isn't at San Marino, it isn't a book.’ 1963D. Ogilvy Confessions Advertising Man vii. 127 Posters are for sloganeers. 1971N.Z. Listener 31 May 5 ‘Sloganeers’—young, sometimes older people, who do not analyse a problem but pick up a current catchcry. 1978Times 7 Aug. 12/4 Questions are a favourite device of envelope sloganeers. ‘Is he to be our next President?’ asked one.
Hence as v. intr., to express oneself in slogans (now usu. in a political context); slogaˈneering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1941H. S. Johnson Hell-Bent for War ii. 37 In this modern sloganeering day,..the constant repetition of a lie has become the..weapon of the totalitarian propagandist. Ibid. iv. 85 We are..getting all ready to do it all over again with hardly a variation in timing sequence or superficial sloganeering. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 18 Mar. 6/6 To speak of the German dead in terms of carpets is not to exaggerate or ‘sloganeer’. 1949Ibid. 13 Oct. 18/3 Eastern Germany's tireless Communists, still a bit breathless from the ten-day marathon of sloganeering over the new ‘East German Republic’, [etc.]. 1967Philos. Rev. LXXVI. 105 An area where superficiality and sloganeering too often hold sway. 1970K. Millett Sexual Politics iii. v. 265 What she does ‘become’ is only a nonentity, utterly incorporated into Birkin, his single follower, proselytizing and sloganeering. 1978New Statesman 27 Oct. 556/3 The islanders have learnt to deploy the bullying sloganeering and empty hard sell of ‘Westminster’ politics. 1981Encounter Apr. 48/2 To distinguish truth from sloganeering licence and exaggeration. |