scandalmonger

Definition of scandalmongernext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalmonger
Noun
  • 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
  • Tattling to the Bachelor doesn’t always go well for the tattler.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That kid has tattletale energy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • People who come forward are called narcs, tattletales and snitches.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Two years ago, an FBI informant met with a South Florida man who expressed his desire to join an anti-government militia and build a bomb targeting a New York City landmark, the FBI said.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • Babeuf was betrayed by an informant, put on trial in 1797, and eventually acquitted of conspiracy, but he was executed for committing his ideas about inequality to print.
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Once an unconscious stool pigeon, always an unconscious stool pigeon.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • There’s a new MCU blabbermouth in town.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2025
  • They’re portrayed as gullible blabbermouths who spill everything the minute anyone shows public kindness.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Scandalmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalmonger. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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