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

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

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

Few British dailies have Sunday editions, and in 1900 few dailies anywhere had learned the trick of scandalmongering as a circulation-builder.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were tried before me for selfishness, or for an impossible vanity, or for scandalmongering, or for stinginess to guests or dependents.

From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)