proselytizer

Example Sentences

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Colbert is not a proselytizer — he is, more than anything else, a comedian.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

He’d become a kind of a proselytizer for conflict resolution, so go figure what's possible.

From Salon • May 26, 2024

He hopes that his ramshackle, crazed aesthetic will prove his sincerity and urgency, like the cardboard signs of the panhandler or proselytizer.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

He was highly intelligent, obsessively curious and profoundly sensitive, a born proselytizer who “saw political events in terms of moral absolutes” and demanded consequences for abuses of power.

From Washington Times • Jun. 16, 2023

As Regina had proselytized all her life for various causes—always liberal and humanistic ones—so, too, Bobby had become a proselytizer.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady