speechifier

Example Sentences

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Even at his most inspiring, he was never a firebrand speechifier.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2020

Actually, the poet and speechifier had been in him from boyhood: he liked to erect a platform in the barn and electrify himself with his own sermons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Postmaster General Farley, the Administration's routine banqueteer and speechifier, took the assignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Wilson was no arguer; no speechifier, as he would have called it.

From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Spout′er, one who, or that which, spouts: a speechifier: a South Sea whale, a skilful whaler; Spout′-hole, an orifice for discharging a liquid, a whale's spiracle.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various