scandalmongering

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And throughout his career, Pearson refused to carry libel insurance or to have his syndicate agree to pay any libel judgments against him, as did other scandalmongering columnists such as Walter Winchell and Westbrook Pegler.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

On this account the permission seems to have lost many of its scandalmongering possibilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because he was hurt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few British dailies have Sunday editions, and in 1900 few dailies anywhere had learned the trick of scandalmongering as a circulation-builder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. B. and Mr. D. remain mysterious symbolic initials of gossip and scandalmongering.

From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Parry, Edward Abbott