scandalmonger

The scandalmonger, inhibited from doing the forbidden thing, enjoys himself by a vicarious indulgence in rottenness.

But either Mrs. Parry was not clever enough or Mrs. Morley had no secret to reveal, for the scandalmonger learned nothing.

So every careless slanderer, and scandalmonger credulous of evil, who believes the lies he propagates.

No man is obliged to give himself away in matters of this sort, and I am no scandalmonger.