newsmonger
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newsmonger
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Allen Johnson
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
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 Horace Walpole
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