newsmonger
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newsmonger
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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
Sealed with butter Ð a reference to the musical publications printed by the newsmonger Nathaniel Butter.
From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Thomas Dekker
It is well to administer some sort of corrective to the information diffused by the neutral newsmonger: Who cheers us when we're in the blues, With reassuring German news, Of starving Berliners in queues?
From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
The regimental business was soon dispatched, and the adjutant, who was a capital newsmonger, began to detail the local news of the day.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
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