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rumormonger

alt. A person who spreads rumors and gossip. n. A person who spreads rumors and gossip. vb. To spread rumors and gossip.

WordNet
rumormonger

n. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others [syn: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger]

Usage examples of "rumormonger".

I must find a certain rumormonger to spread word that three Keshian gentlemen now residing in Silden have just sold a great deal of Heart of Joy to a smuggler bound for the island Kingdom of Roldem.

It would not stop rumormongers, and there could be resulting embarrassment all around.

I have summoned you here to explain to you that, contrary to what has been suggested by certain rumormongers and malcontents, this is not the first time Romans have invaded the kingdom of Persia.

Savil had reckoned that keeping the rumormongers confused would keep the real story from reaching Withen for a while and buy them additional time.

Then I made my case for their not running away from the evil tongues of rumormongers, as gossip would pursue them wherever they went, and they would lose years of their lives in futile efforts to elude the ineluctable.

Ian barely had time to read the daily news, much less gossip written by anonymous rumormongers for third-rate newspapers.

The rumormongers will be plying their trade in the market, and every commoner in the city will know enough to give you a fair picture of what's taken place.

Every known informant in the city, and many of the beggars and rumormongers as well, had been dragged off to the dungeons and questioned, but whatever else Radburn's men accomplished, they did not learn where the Princess was hidden.

Hired rumormongers go into the marketplace and tell stories of droughts and floods that have destroyed the maize crops, but no one believes them.

Our hired rumormongers go into the streets, saying the viceroy himself has burned the maize.

Every known informant in the city, and many of the beggars and rumormongers as well, had been dragged off to the dungeons and questioned, but whatever else Radburn's men accomplished, they did not leam where the Princess was hidden.

A moment ago he had thought, impossibly, that Havergill was granting him a reprieve from the disaster that by now he was convinced was absolute, however much he pretended otherwise, however much it was not his fault but the work of rumormongers and malicious fools who had led him into inept banking deals.

Lie with the child, murdered here in this convent, so say the rumormongers, the vampires who haunt these halls now, who have come to see the great Vampire Lestat in his Endymion-like sleep.