scandal sheet

noun

A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.

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Meanings

nounscandal sheet (plural scandal sheets)

plural scandal sheets

  1. informalA tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.

    Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an exposé of her.

    1965, "Cinema: Career Girl's Question" (film review of Sex and the Single Girl), Time, 1 Jan.
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    London's leading scandal sheet, The Daily Mirror, has been investigating the story with great relish and its most recent expose on the case featured by-lines by nine reporters.

    1975 December 20, “Tory Tidbits”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 2

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tabloid

Translations

Finnish skandaalilehti
  • skandaalilehtitype of tabloid
Polish szczujnia
  • szczujniatype of tabloid
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APA

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Chicago

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