verbalist
/ˈvɜrbəlɪst/
noun
- A person who pays more attention to words than to ideas or actions; someone who uses many words without much meaning.
- Critics called him a verbalist because his speeches were long on fancy words but short on solutions.
- She was tired of listening to verbalists at the meeting who never got anything done.
- The professor was a verbalist who could talk for hours without saying anything important.
- A person skilled in the use of words; a wordsmith.
- The novelist was a true verbalist, crafting sentences that readers remembered for years.
- As a poet and verbalist, she could turn a simple idea into a beautiful phrase.
- He was known as a great verbalist, able to argue any point with clever language.
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