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scandalmonger

[ skan-dl-mong-ger, -muhng- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

scandalmonger

/ ˈskændəlˌmʌŋɡə /

First recorded in 1715–25; scandal + monger

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

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

Damn my cousin Townham for a dried-up, wiggy, pratin' little scandalmonger!

She was respectability personified, and complained bitterly of the misery of being tied to a scandalmonger!

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

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