shitsheet

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noun

A low-quality newspaper.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounshitsheet (plural shitsheets)

plural shitsheets

  1. derogatoryslangvulgarA low-quality newspaper.

    Two-faced contempt is the basic mode of operation for many newspapers: mindwarping shitsheets filled with selective reporting and audacious bias.

    2010 May 2, Charlie Booker, “Election 2010: Which leader's public persona do you prefer?”, in The Guardian
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    From time to time, you see the shitsheets basing some unlikely story on "facts" gleaned from a statistical questionnaire. You know the stuff: "Women prefer homosexual men — shocking report!"

    1985, “Shock Reports”, in Razzle, volume 3, number 15, page 12

    Every year […] we get the usual array of well-dressed, well-meaning types promising to represent the silent majority (and whose team name is eternally followed on Leftie shitsheets by "Young Liberals")

    1996, Marcus Salisbury, “Days of Whine + Noserings”, in Yobbopolitain, number 8, page 6

    But at the time, the smearing and demonisation of Crean was astonishing. Downer suggested he was an appeaser who was “talking like Saddam Hussein”. Andrew Bolt called Crean “Chamberlain”. The Australian and other News Corp shitsheets ran editorial after editorial, op-ed after op-ed, vilifying Crean — who according to The Australian would forever be “associated with the appeasement of tyranny” — and Labor.

    2023 June 26, Bernard Keane, “Vale Simon Crean — a study in what happens to those who tell the truth”, in Crikey

Origin

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APA

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“shitsheet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shitsheet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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