newsmonger
Example Sentences
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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
Very likely this rumor was circulated by some malicious newsmonger, but the appointment of Peck certainly did not inspire confidence in the newly organized court.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen
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
As Jerome says, in a letter of his I once saw, ladies think twice in such cases before they offend the city newsmonger.
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Kingsley, Charles
