scandalmonger

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Recent Examples of scandalmonger Paparazzi and scandalmongers peek and pry via ubicomp. Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 2 June 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalmonger
Noun
  • 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
  • Tattling to the Bachelor doesn’t always go well for the tattler.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Unfortunately, The Croat, being a complete and total tattletale, blabbed to The Dama that Negan had hesitated.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 11 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The court can instruct the jury to view with caution the testimony of, say, an informer or a drug addict.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 10 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But, during the trials, you were named as someone who interrogated Aquash for being an informant.
    Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
  • Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the program, and Ring’s accompanying Neighbors app, have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 3 Jul. 2025.

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