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 newsmonger is of the number, but his manner is not quite hearty—there is something of surliness in his compliments.
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles
The competition is for the poet, the novelist, the newsmonger, or some enfant terrible, whose autograph is rare to excess.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew
She did not know that a newsmonger is never respected, nor did she know that no girl whose nature was refined would care to know other people's business.
From Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore by Brooks, Amy
