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- adjective informal In the style of a
tabloid ;sensationalistic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cronan is among those who think the iPad name hubbub is a temporary "tabloidy" tempest and that people will come to accept it the same way they have gotten over referring to digital lock interfaces as "key pads".
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Cronan is among those who think the iPad name hubbub is a temporary "tabloidy" tempest and that people will come to accept it the same way they have gotten over referring to digital lock interfaces as "key pads."
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Cronan is among those who think the iPad name hubbub is a temporary "tabloidy" tempest and that people will come to accept it the same way they have gotten over referring to digital lock interfaces as key pads.
News 2010
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CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein got his walking papers this week, replaced by longtime CNN-er Ken Jautz, who most recently transformed Headline News channel from a news recap channel to the more tabloidy/talk-showy HLN.
CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein out, HLN topper Ken Jautz in Lisa de Moraes 2010
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I want to drive a view here that rather than the slightly tabloidy view sometimes about the nature of young people, I live in a world where they make extraordinary commitments," said Coe."
Olympic flame to travel to London by trains, boats and planes 2011
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What used to be a great website to while away the hours reading about serial killers is now something gaudy and tabloidy where the most-searched for articles on the front page are "Cheerleaders Gone Wild" and "Sordid Lesbian Affair Killer".
Wondering what her head would look like on a stick zombietron 2009
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This place is becoming more and more tabloidy by the second
Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield 2011
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As I scroll through my RSS feed everyday, too many headlines from too many blogs I read strike me as tabloidy, over the top and misleading.
How to Revise Your Titles for Maximum Results | Write to Done 2009
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What used to be a great website to while away the hours reading about serial killers is now something gaudy and tabloidy where the most-searched for articles on the front page are "Cheerleaders Gone Wild" and "Sordid Lesbian Affair Killer".
Archive 2009-03-01 zombietron 2009
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Nakata and Walsh are having an off day with this awful, fatuous nonsense, convulsed with dated, tabloidy fear of the internet, whose supposed dangers are imagined with naive and tacky prurience.
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