scandal-monger

Ben Smith profiles blogger/scandal-monger Will Folks.

Last call 2010

"It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and political democracy on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 18th century, but hero he was and in this engaging book Arthur Cash gives Wilkes the serious treatment he has long deserved."

Yale Press Log: 2007

Macumer treated this officious scandal-monger to one of those glances of his which seem to me so eloquent of noble scorn, and replied to the effect that he was “not in love with any little coquette.”

Letters of Two Brides 2007

"It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and political democracy on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 18th century, but hero he was and in this engaging book Arthur Cash gives Wilkes the serious treatment he has long deserved."

“Father knows best” -- Celebrating Father’s Day with Yale University Press 2007

She liked listening to gossip and scandal and was a clever scandal-monger herself; she liked to lavish favours upon someone, then suddenly crush him with her displeasure, in fact, Lizaveta Prohorovna behaved exactly like a lady.

The Inn 2006

He was an adroit scandal-monger, and would crawl a mile on his belly to anything that had a title or a million.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Still, though thus pitiless in moral anatomy, she was no scandal-monger: she never disseminated really malignant or dangerous reports: it was not her heart so much as her temper that was wrong.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

But so great was the general respect for the wealthy engineer throughout the town that the shopman would hardly believe the story, and questioned the scandal-monger doubtingly.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

However much she may think herself an aristocrat, she is nothing more than a mere scandal-monger and a poser.

Virgin Soil 2003

Moreover, he was a scandal-monger, and had more than once had to smart for his back-biting, for which he had been badly punished by an officer, and again by a country gentleman, the respectable head of a family - But we liked his wit, his inquiring mind, his peculiar, malicious liveliness.

The Possessed 2003