scandalmongering

That does sound like an oasis of civility in a body that had just spent eight years obsessed with witchhunts, scandalmongering and impeachment, and where committee chairmen would publicly call the president a “scumbag.”

According to the new novel by Nobel laureate Dario Fo, however, this is nothing but “creative embroidery in the fine art of scandalmongering.”

Although the movie could have served to shoot down any number of tabloid rumors, Chu says “Believe” was never intended as a rejoinder to scandalmongering.

Well"—she settled herself comfortably—"I'm sorry to see you come down to my own scandalmongering level.

The rest of the white population are mainly idlers, who gather together in the square from noon till evening and pass away the time in gambling and scandalmongering.