scandal sheet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scandal sheet
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Until now, her character, Penelope Featherington, has been content to be a wallflower in the ballrooms of Regency London, allowing her to observe and secretly write a society scandal sheet under the pseudonym Lady Whistledown.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2024
So does the prohibitive cost of printing mean that the mystery person backing the scandal sheet was definitely one of the ton’s richer residents?
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2021
More troubling is the for-profit industry’s scandal sheet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2017
“The Whig Club” is basically a scandal sheet in volume form about the Whigs—i.e., liberal aristocrats—of the period and what they got up to.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2016
A frayed scandal sheet called Madam Solaina's Secrets is tucked between two pages.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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