scandal sheet

noun

1. a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scandal sheet¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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

The received wisdom around Cubism treats these words and letters, especially the J-O-U of the Cubists’ favorite scandal sheet Le Journal, as signs set free of their original meanings.

From New York Times

From the outermost borough of Adelaide, Australia, there was the unscrupulous media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who had already turned the liberal tabloid New York Post into a right-wing scandal sheet and who in 1985 completed the acquisition of 20th Century Fox that would eventually give the world Fox News, commanded by another member of the New York gang, Roger Ailes.

From Washington Post

“In any other field — politics, show business, whatever — a gossipy scandal sheet would be nothing out of the ordinary,” he said.

From New York Times

Cast out of his protectors’ company — his bumbling naïveté, so sexy in the countryside, is embarrassing in the big city — Lucien finds his way onto the staff of an anti-royalist scandal sheet, where he makes a splash writing criticism, using de Rubempré as his byline.

From New York Times