newsmonger

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When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery.

From Time Magazine Archive

As soon as our historian had discovered that the poet was a brother spy and newsmonger on the side of Prince Eugene, their reciprocal civilities cooled.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

It is pretty odd that my mistress should so much resemble his: The same newsmonger, the same passionate lover of a court, the same—But, Basta, since I must marry her.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"As a newsmonger, you say, do you, that minutes are valuable?"

From All-Wool Morrison by Day, Holman