sleazemonger

sleazemonger

English

Etymology

sleaze +‎ monger

Noun

sleazemonger (plural sleazemongers)

1. One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; gossip, blabbermouth.
2. A peddler of sleaze.
   • 1988, "Prince Charming", Complications, page 208

     Ernest cannot see himself telling Honoroff that his wife does pictures for that sex-obsessed sleazemonger.

   • a 2004, Hunter S. Thompson, "Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA", Hey Rube, page 49

     Not even the sleazemongers at Fox will pay big money to televise a dull & diminished NBA product.

   • 2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 273

     The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger?

Translations

one who spreads disgraceful information

Finnish: loanheittäjä Russian: болту́н (ru) m (boltún), болту́нья (ru) f (boltúnʹja), спле́тник (ru) m (splétnik), спле́тница (ru) f (splétnica), трепло́ (ru) n (trepló) (disparaging)

peddler of sleaze

Finnish: saastan levittäjä