scandal sheet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scandal sheet
First recorded in 1900–05
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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
“If it makes the scandal sheet, it’s a problem.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2020
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
It's the smile from every single portrait, painting, newspaper, tattler, and scandal sheet.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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