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Recent Examples of scandalmonger
Paparazzi and scandalmongers peek and pry via ubicomp.
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Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 2 June 2006
Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 2 June 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalmonger
Noun
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Wandering tattlers, the ruddy turnstone and a variety of other summer migrants will be found on our local beaches.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2025
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Tattling to the Bachelor doesn’t always go well for the tattler.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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People who come forward are called narcs, tattletales and snitches.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Years later, their youngest daughter, Hannah Burch – now 24 and a mother herself – shared a viral TikTok video reflecting on the unique ways she and her siblings were raised — from rules around being a tattletale to monthly family yardwork and chore expectations.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Weathermen and Panthers held meetings together and exchanged intel about government surveillance and police informants.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Miami Herald has previously reported that Pretel, who ran a company known as Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and helped recruit the Colombian commandos, was an FBI informant.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Once an unconscious stool pigeon, always an unconscious stool pigeon.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
12 Nov. 2025
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Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There’s a new MCU blabbermouth in town.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
10 Aug. 2025
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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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“Scandalmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalmonger. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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