Meanings
nounsleazemonger (plural sleazemongers)
plural sleazemongers
- One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; a gossip, a blabbermouth.
- A peddler of sleaze.
The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger?
2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 2732 more examples
Ernest cannot see himself telling Honoroff that his wife does pictures for that sex-obsessed sleazemonger.
1988, “Prince Charming”, in Complications, page 208Not even the sleazemongers at Fox will pay big money to televise a dull & diminished NBA product.
a 2004, Hunter S. Thompson, "Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA", Hey Rube, page 49
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Finnish loanheittäjä, saastan levittäjä
- loanheittäjäone who spreads disgraceful information
- saastan levittäjäpeddler of sleaze
Russian болту́н, болту́нья
- болту́н (boltún)one who spreads disgraceful information
- болту́нья (boltúnʹja)one who spreads disgraceful information
- спле́тник (splétnik)one who spreads disgraceful information
- спле́тница (splétnica)one who spreads disgraceful information
- трепло́ (trepló)one who spreads disgraceful information
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