One given to malicious gossip

Usage examples of scandalmonger.

A manifest and most apparent thief, A scandalmonger beyond all belief.

Sooner or later the scandalmongers were bound to catch wind of an unattached female having taken up residence at Stoneleigh.

Only his determination to reach Harcourt kept him from unleashing his wrath on the scandalmongers wagging their vicious tongues.

The courtroom was not as packed with spectators as it had been for the trial of Frankie Silver, for no momentous crimes were set to be tried and no sensational testimony was in the offing, but since no court day goes unmarked by the curious and the scandalmongers, there was no shortage of spectators for the proceedings.

Scandalmongers did a busy trade in all the latest gossip, and confidence tricksters strolled elegantly down the Promenade, eyeing the Quality in much the same way as a cruising shark might observe a passing shoal of minnows.

Next, he'd have the scandalmongers watching them avidly, and God only knew what they might see.

There could be no divulging the disreputable nature of his past history without running into danger, for once it became known, or even suspected, that he was what Mr George Brede termed a loose fish there was no knowing how much the scandalmongers might discover.