newsmonger
Example Sentences
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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
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
The observer suffered for this; 130 he was a wealthy citizen, and great newsmonger, and one who haunted Paul’s Walk.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
Like most great processes of art, this is an adoption and perfecting of habits usual with the most inartistic people—a turning to good account of the interminably circumstantial superfluities of the common gossip and newsmonger.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
"I knew he would show them to every newsmonger about the clubs," said Phineas angrily.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
