newsmonger
Example Sentences
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Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stephen Archer was a stationer, bookseller, and newsmonger in one of the suburbs of London.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George
It is pretty odd that my mistress should so much resemble his: The same newsmonger, the same passionate lover of a court, the same—But, Basta, since I must marry her.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The newsmonger is of the number, but his manner is not quite hearty—there is something of surliness in his compliments.
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles
