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Recent Examples of rumormonger
This successfully makes the case, as is made elsewhere, that Trump was good at working the press — so good, in fact, that years later, a professional rumormonger remembers them with greater clarity than any time Trump made news.
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
Stay to see Veronica Cartwright's uptight rumormonger vomit her weight in cherry stones.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 1 May 2020
People who complained about food prices and empty stomachs were dismissed as liars and rumormongers.
—New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
The reliable Apple rumormonger and analyst said Apple is planning to produce tens of millions of AirTag units by the end of the year.
—Don Reisinger, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2020
But the rumormongers were clever, insisting that for three years the Beatles had offered clues in their albums about McCartney’s demise and replacement.
—oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
The Source: Anonymous rumormongers talking to reputable fan sites
Probability of Accuracy: This feels like a trap.
—Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
But one piece of information that's been less consistently bandied by rumormongers is what, precisely, Apple plans to call its next-gen smartphones.
—Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
Relatives have also begged rumormongers to lay off.
—Avi Selk, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
Stay to see Veronica Cartwright's uptight rumormonger vomit her weight in cherry stones.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 1 May 2020
People who complained about food prices and empty stomachs were dismissed as liars and rumormongers.
—New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
The reliable Apple rumormonger and analyst said Apple is planning to produce tens of millions of AirTag units by the end of the year.
—Don Reisinger, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2020
But the rumormongers were clever, insisting that for three years the Beatles had offered clues in their albums about McCartney’s demise and replacement.
—oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
The Source: Anonymous rumormongers talking to reputable fan sites
Probability of Accuracy: This feels like a trap.
—Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
But one piece of information that's been less consistently bandied by rumormongers is what, precisely, Apple plans to call its next-gen smartphones.
—Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
Relatives have also begged rumormongers to lay off.
—Avi Selk, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumormonger
Noun
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He had been suspended for flouting weight regulations, stripped of his informants and demoted to monitoring wiretaps.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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His lawyers and family deny any gang connections and say the allegations are largely based on information from a 2019 informant.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Singh says that the Kashmir policy of India's Hindu nationalist government has alienated residents of Kashmir, and cost the Indian army its vital network of local informers.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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The book’s cast of characters is immense, including spies and informers, dubious bankers, Mafiosos, terrorists, radical priests who support the poor, and conservatives who back right-wing dictators.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Hsu had no problem playing an out-and-out villain for long stretches of that film, but her Ruby is more of an oblivious blabbermouth prone to shocking bouts of callousness, like failing to remember the names of people she’s inadvertently condemned to die.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
19 Dec. 2024
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Hsu had no problem playing an out-and-out villain for long stretches of that film, but her Ruby is more of an oblivious blabbermouth prone to shocking bouts of callousness, like failing to remember the names of people she’s inadvertently condemned to die.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
19 Dec. 2024
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Julie Andrews as Lady Whistledown Julie Andrews voices Lady Whistledown, the ton's voracious gossipmonger who sends each social season into a tizzy.—
Charlotte Walsh,
Peoplemag,
3 May 2023
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Anon plz — but the true identities behind popular Instagram gossipmonger DeuxMoi have just been spotted on Substack.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
20 May 2022
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Tattling to the Bachelor doesn’t always go well for the tattler.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts.—
Robert D. McFadden,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 Aug. 2020
Noun
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Upsides And Downsides Are At Stake Generative AI can readily be shaped as a tattletale or snitch by an AI maker.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The two of them, as though after a party, would have stood at the sink cleaning dishes and wondering which among the attendees was the traitor, the tattletale.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
26 July 2023
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Commentary and opinions The O.C. public defender who exposed the jailhouse snitch scandal is retiring, but not done, columnist Gustavo Arellano writes.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Hwang revealed a a recent promotional event in Seoul that he was inspired to make the film after reading a news article in the local press about underworld snitches who regularly visit Korean prosecutors’ offices to share information in exchange for favors.—
Patrick Brzeski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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While one reading of Xi is that his rhetoric is in part a strategic move to burnish Chinese power globally, labeling Taiwan as a renegade or breakaway province is, for many, a clear indication of an intention to invade and bring the island within the geography of Chinese sovereignty.—
Colin Flint,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2025
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The renegades were attempting to void the ACC’s grant-of-rights agreement, which would clear them to join the SEC or Big Ten.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Rumormonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumormonger. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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