Crossword clues for sensationalist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sensationalist \Sen*sa"tion*al*ist\, n.
(Metaph.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846 in philosophy; 1868 of writers; from sensational + -ist. Related: Sensationalistic.
Wiktionary
a. sensationalistic; tending to sensationalize; characterized by sensationalism (the use of exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention). n. 1 One who indulges in sensational behavior or action 2 One who believes or espouses sensationalism
WordNet
n. someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention [syn: ballyhoo artist]
Usage examples of "sensationalist".
Perhaps, in so doing, he may lay his hand on an even sharper weapon than those which he has already used against the sensationalist theory of morals.
Lying there in the late spring sun, Rose indulged himself in his one fatuous addiction: the reading of sensationalist newspapers and magazines.
The Settlement has been written up repeatedly by sensationalists, and usually by sensationalists who have never laid eyes on it.
The noticiarios in the morning had abounded in details sensationalists with the scene with the suite and the subsequent fight, details that without a doubt had been provided by the guests of the hotel.
The lurid nature of a father contracting the abduction of his own child fed a wildfire of sensationalist journalism, but even before the worst of it, Lucy Chenier concluded that life with yours truly was not worth the risk, so she took her son and went home.
He agreed, reminding me that the Oregonian was one of the few papers that had not abandoned its policy of withholding information about the victims of sexual offenses after the William Kennedy Smith rape allegation triggered sensationalist paper-selling headlines.
Now only a squad of the most steadfast remained, mostly from The World Hologram and other sensationalist weekly newspapers, the chiliast magazines, and a lone representative from a publication that called itself Science and God.