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Scandalmongering

noun
1.
Spreading malicious gossip.
adjective
1.
Typical of tabloids.  Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow.  "Yellow press"





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"Scandalmongering" Quotes from Famous Books



... which is not probable, please make my apologies to him for borrowing his name, as I have borrowed also another man's clothes. I am Aaron Burr, of New York, a name pretty widely known and much bandied about in these scandalmongering days. I know your husband well; Colonel Hinson and myself are old friends; I saw him lately in Natchez, and he was kind enough to invite me to make his house my home, in case I had need of a comrade soldier's hospitality. Under the ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... four hundred farmers. The rest of the white population are mainly idlers, who gather together in the square from noon till evening and pass away the time in gambling and scandalmongering. The work of agriculture is carried on by black slaves imported from Madagascar. They can be got in exchange for a gun or a roll of cloth, and the dearest does not cost more than seven pounds. They are compelled to work from sunrise to sunset, and they are given nothing to eat but mashed ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various


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