scandalmongering

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And throughout his career, Pearson refused to carry libel insurance or to have his syndicate agree to pay any libel judgments against him, as did other scandalmongering columnists such as Walter Winchell and Westbrook Pegler.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

On this account the permission seems to have lost many of its scandalmongering possibilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stoical about scandalmongering books about his family and gossip-column misinformation about himself, he was as determined as his mother to protect his personal privacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

They chose Manhattan and there five years ago founded a little illustrated sheet, of scandalmongering propensities, the Daily News.

From Time Magazine Archive

Should such a thing occur—and it might occur—your secret would become the common property of this scandalmongering place, and your last condition would be worse than your first.

From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus