promulgator
Example Sentences
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These misdeeds were different from the ones Hersey was focussed on in “The Legend on the License,” but they take away some of the burnish from his image as the promulgator of sacred rules.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
Even more disturbing was the untimely demise of John H Knowles, director of the Rockefeller Foundation and promulgator of the “doctrine of personal responsibility” for one’s health.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2018
That the age of universal popularity of the nylon-haired, doe-eyed, plastic embodiment of body fascism, that icon of mindless consumption and ravening materialism, promulgator of female passivity and aggravator of vanity is over at last?
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2013
On the other hand ... it errs in being the somewhat prolix promulgator of impertinent puns.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were lacking the versatility and adaptability which developed in the nineteenth century, when, amongst women, convention became settled custom, and custom the careful promulgator of social laws.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
