pamphleteer

[ pam-fli-teer ]

/ ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər /

a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.

to write and issue pamphlets.

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

My mother was a pamphleteer by temperament, and she knew that sedition and controversy are fired by printed matter.

Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir |Jeanette Winterson |March 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
A miser, or a pamphleteer at strife with the world at large, must surely have invented these fortifications.

Cousin Pons |Honore de Balzac
In fact, he was not so much a journalist, in the proper meaning of that term, as a pamphleteer or writer of leading articles.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index |Various
There is for him as novelist or pamphleteer no principle but expediency, no rule of conduct but temporal advantage.

Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 |Various

He also wrote much for the Government, his pungent and persuasive style fitting him for the career of a pamphleteer.

Comfort Found in Good Old Books |George Hamlin Fitch
The spectre of the great Douglas Trial loomed large in the eyes of the pamphleteer and the hero of the riot.

James Boswell |William Keith Leask

pamphleteer

/ (ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə) /

a person who writes or issues pamphlets, esp of a controversial nature

(intr) to write or issue pamphlets