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sleazemonger

sleazemonger noun: one who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; a gossip, a blabbermouth.

Noun

sleazemonger (plural sleazemongers)

  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

Forms of sleazemonger

pluralsleazemongers

Origin of sleazemonger

From sleaze + monger.

Questions about sleazemonger

What does sleazemonger mean?
Sleazemonger means one who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; a gossip, a blabbermouth.
What part of speech is sleazemonger?
Sleazemonger is a noun.
What is the plural of sleazemonger?
The plural of sleazemonger is sleazemongers.

Words near sleazemonger in the dictionary

  1. sleazebuckets
  2. sleazecore
  3. sleazed
  4. sleazehole
  5. sleazeholes
  6. sleazemonger
  7. sleazemongers
  8. sleazes
  9. sleazewad
  10. sleazewads
  11. sleazier

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