scandal sheet

Example Sentences

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Until now, her character, Penelope Featherington, has been content to be a wallflower in the ballrooms of Regency London, allowing her to observe and secretly write a society scandal sheet under the pseudonym Lady Whistledown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024

“In any other field — politics, show business, whatever — a gossipy scandal sheet would be nothing out of the ordinary,” he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2022

So does the prohibitive cost of printing mean that the mystery person backing the scandal sheet was definitely one of the ton’s richer residents?

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2021

“The Whig Club” is basically a scandal sheet in volume form about the Whigs—i.e., liberal aristocrats—of the period and what they got up to.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 10, 2016

Sophia circles Astrid and waves the scandal sheet in the air.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton