wordmonger

• Nom désignant un écrivain ou un orateur qui utilise le langage de manière négligente, prétentieuse ou excessivement ampoulée, souvent sans grand souci du sens réel.

A noun referring to a writer or speaker who uses language in a careless, pretentious, or overly elaborate way, often with little regard for actual meaning.

1. Pretentious or careless writerC2formal

   A writer who uses language in a showy, careless, or overly elaborate way, often with little regard for actual meaning or substance.

   Écrivain prétentieux ou négligent

   • The critic dismissed the author as a mere wordmonger, more interested in style than substance.
   • He was a wordmonger, filling his articles with jargon and empty phrases.
   • Don't be a wordmonger; say what you mean clearly.

   Synonymesgasbaghackscribblerverbiagewindbagwordsmith