scandal sheet
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an exposé of her."
- "London's leading scandal sheet, The Daily Mirror, has been investigating the story with great relish and its most recent expose on the case featured by-lines by nine reporters."