scandal sheet

Example Sentences

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Until now, her character, Penelope Featherington, has been content to be a wallflower in the ballrooms of Regency London, allowing her to observe and secretly write a society scandal sheet under the pseudonym Lady Whistledown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024

The received wisdom around Cubism treats these words and letters, especially the J-O-U of the Cubists’ favorite scandal sheet Le Journal, as signs set free of their original meanings.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

So does the prohibitive cost of printing mean that the mystery person backing the scandal sheet was definitely one of the ton’s richer residents?

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2021

The most intriguing character on the series is a persona: the notorious and observant scandal sheet writer Lady Whistledown.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020

A frayed scandal sheet called Madam Solaina's Secrets is tucked between two pages.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton