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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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Unfortunately, The Croat, being a complete and total tattletale, blabbed to The Dama that Negan had hesitated.—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
11 May 2025
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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
Noun
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The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments.—
Joshua Rovner,
The Conversation,
2 July 2025
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The defendants suggested one of the informants is either someone in current House Speaker Cameron Sexton's office – or is the speaker himself.—
Rosalind Bowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Encouragingly, this discernment may translate to digital informants like computers too.—
Evan Orticio,
Scientific American,
2 June 2025
Noun
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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
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They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.—
Max Colchester,
WSJ,
3 Jan. 2019
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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“Scandalmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalmonger. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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