1. a person who uses elaborate or pretentious phrases, especially in speech or writing
Usage: often derogatory

Examples

• The politician was dismissed as a phrasemonger who never gave straight answers.
• Critics called the author a phrasemonger whose flowery language obscured his meaning.
• She avoided the phrasemonger’s verbose explanations and asked for simple facts.
• The professor was known as a phrasemonger who loved complex terminology.
• His reputation as a phrasemonger made people skeptical of his sincerity.
• The speech was full of empty rhetoric from a skilled phrasemonger.