scandalmonger
- n a person who spreads malicious gossip
- Some one in the Mirror office with an intimate knowledge of the affairs of the Vanderbilt family supplied the Mirror's female scandalmonger (by name "Hettie Fithian Cattell .
- Soon after the Wall Street crash, Patterson the scandalmonger strode into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot.
- Ill-famed in Boston was the daily Telegram, scandalmonger.