Bully Pulpit Definition

noun
A position of power and influence used to aggressively promote one's own cause.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bully Pulpit

Noun

Singular:
bully pulpit
Plural:
bully-pulpits

Origin of Bully Pulpit

  • From bully splendid (probably coined by Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the presidency as a bully pulpit (“splendid pulpit”) from which he could expound his views like a preacher)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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