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- noun neologism The writing style of
tabloid journalism.
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Examples
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Yet what gets lost in the translation of Kerry Katona's life into tabloidese – the photos of her shaping up one moment, and falling to pieces the next – is the fact that this isn't simply a reality TV star making bad life choices for us to ridicule and deride – it's what mental illness looks like.
If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011
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Yet what gets lost in the translation of Kerry Katona's life into tabloidese – the photos of her shaping up one moment, and falling to pieces the next – is the fact that this isn't simply a reality TV star making bad life choices for us to ridicule and deride – it's what mental illness looks like.
If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011
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Absorb enough tabloidese and eventually it owns your neurons.
Gold-plated failure gives England no escape from the boo-boys 2010
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Monmouth Conservative Assembly Member, David Davies, is at it again, using effective tabloidese to make a telling political point.
Free Gifts 2004
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Rita, who first appeared in 2000's Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire and was played by Miranda Richardson in the films of the books, was famous for her Quick-Quotes Quill, a magical pen that automatically translates an interview into tabloidese.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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Rita, who first appeared in 2000's Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire and was played by Miranda Richardson in the films of the books, was famous for her Quick-Quotes Quill, a magical pen that automatically translates an interview into tabloidese.
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Announcing that his out-of-form striker's Mr 15% had told Man Utd chief exec David Gill that Wayne was not interested in signing another contract with United, Wounded Ferg looked genuinely hurt as he revealed the "terribly disappointing news" that the tabloidese prefix
The Guardian World News Barry Glendenning 2010
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Daily Mirror journalists away from the sin of writing tabloidese.
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It has always surprised me that readers appear to accept tabloidese as a written, rather than a spoken, language.
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It is the art of tabloidese - those words and phrases that red-top newspapers use because they are "popular" yet have never been uttered in real life by a single person, not once, not ever.
whichbe commented on the word tabloidese
Language typical of tabloid journalism. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008