0 a person who creates or spreads reports about actions and events that cause public shock and disapproval --
He also became the target of scandalmongers.
His contemporary reputation was as a scandalmonger, due to the content of some of his reporting, which overshadowed the political content.
It is high time that we locked up some of the scandalmongers who are undermining the nation's trading confidence at the moment.
That sort of compilation of news is a heaven-sent opportunity for anonymous scandalmongers.
The roof has crashed on the heads of the scandalmongers, the tale-bearers, the whisperers, the gloaters, and the retailers of juicy rumours.
