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English
Etymology
sleaze + monger
Noun
sleazemonger (plural sleazemongers)
- One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; gossip, blabbermouth.
- A peddler of sleaze.
1988, “Prince Charming”, in Complications, page 208:Ernest cannot see himself telling Honoroff that his wife does pictures for that sex-obsessed sleazemonger.
- a 2004, Hunter S. Thompson, "Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA", Hey Rube, page 49
- Not even the sleazemongers at Fox will pay big money to televise a dull & diminished NBA product.
2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 273:The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger?
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