newsmonger
Example Sentences
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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
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
Sealed with butter Ð a reference to the musical publications printed by the newsmonger Nathaniel Butter.
From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Dekker, Thomas
Several dainty missives and a lace handkerchief, with a monogram, invited the unscrupulous and prying glance of the inquisitive newsmonger.
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart
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
