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Sensationalist   /sɛnsˈeɪʃənəlɪst/   Listen
Sensationalist

noun
1.
Someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention.  Synonym: ballyhoo artist.





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"Sensationalist" Quotes from Famous Books



... lightly touched upon as to produce hardly any effect of violence. His sympathy with the life of the soil, and the human lives that are so near to it, is clearly absorbing; the result is that, to all save the confirmed sensationalist (piqued possibly by the waste of good homicide), Shepherd's Warning will also, I think, prove ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920 • Various


Words linked to "Sensationalist" :   ballyhoo artist, sensationalism, publicizer, publicist, publiciser


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