Sleazemonger

Origin

sleaze + -monger

Full definition of sleazemonger

Noun

1. One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; gossip, blabbermouth.
2. A peddler of sleaze.
• 1988, "Prince Charming", Complications, page 208Ernest 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 49Not even the sleazemongers at Fox will pay big money to televise a dull & diminished NBA product.
• 2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 273The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger?