Dictionary

sleazemonger en · NOUN

Etymology

From sleaze + monger.

Meanings

1. One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; a gossip, a blabbermouth.
2. A peddler of sleaze.
   • Ernest cannot see himself telling Honoroff that his wife does pictures for that sex-obsessed sleazemonger. 1988, “Prince Charming”, in Complications, page 208:
   • Not 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
   • The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger? 2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 273:

Forms

Translations (7)

fi loanheittäjä (one who spreads disgraceful information) · ru спле́тник (one who spreads disgraceful information) · ru трепло́ (one who spreads disgraceful information) · fi saastan levittäjä (peddler of sleaze) · ru болту́нья (one who spreads disgraceful information) · ru спле́тница (one who spreads disgraceful information) · ru болту́н (one who spreads disgraceful information)