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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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That kid has tattletale energy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2026
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People who come forward are called narcs, tattletales and snitches.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.—
Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
19 May 2026
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Greylord was a watershed moment in its use of eavesdropping devices and a mole to obtain evidence instead of relying on wrongdoers to become government informants.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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The charges do not stem from the general practice of paying informants but from the Justice Department's allegations that the SPLC made these payments without disclosing the practice to donors and by defrauding banks.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
3 June 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 9 Jun. 2026.
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