scandalmonger:
(also written: ‘scandal-monger’, ‘scandal monger’; plural: ‘scandalmongers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
‘monger‘ = a person who wants something (fishmonger; ironmonger) or who likes to talk about something, usually bad, about other people (gossip-monger; news-monger)
a person who tells and enjoys telling others a scandal,
some scandalmongers at work
Betty is our office scandalmonger; she spies on others and gets some personal information about them and then tells everyone with some colour added.
Some social experts believe that there always some truth in what the scandal-mongers enjoy spreading, and without such scandal-mongers people and the police may be kept in the dark about many crimes!
As there is no dearth of political and sexual scandals, so is there no dearth of scandal mongers in our society, and it’s not all untrue that most of the news channels are the ‘best’ scandal mongers.
