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WORDMONGER: 

\WURD-muhng-ger, -mong-\

noun 1. a writer or speaker who uses words pretentiously or with careless disregard for meaning.

Quotes

Try reading Mr. Gass's essays not as statements but as counterstatements, as in an argument where one of the speakers is solid, a bit dull, relentlessly correct, and the other fellow is, intellectually, a bit of a rake, a rhetorician, a word monger and a joy to behold, a Gass. The price the literary rake pays for his dazzle is that his works stay in the reader's mind not as convincing arguments but as things the reader wishes he had said ... -- Denis Donoghue, "Counterstatements," New York Times, July 9, 1978

Origin

Wordmonger entered English in the late 1500s. The word monger means "a dealer in or trader of a commodity" or "a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way" and it is frequently used in combination, as in the terms fishmonger and gossipmonger.