newsmonger
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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
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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
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As soon as our historian had discovered that the poet was a brother spy and newsmonger on the side of Prince Eugene, their reciprocal civilities cooled.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
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
I believe you will make me grow a little of a newsmonger, though you are none; but I know that at a distance, in the country, letters of news are a regale.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.