scandal sheet
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[edit]Noun
[edit]scandal sheet (plural scandal sheets)
- (informal) A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.
- 1965, "Cinema: Career Girl's Question" (film review of Sex and the Single Girl), Time, 1 Jan.:
- 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.
- 1975 December 20, “Tory Tidbits”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 2:
- 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.
- 1965, "Cinema: Career Girl's Question" (film review of Sex and the Single Girl), Time, 1 Jan.:
Translations
[edit]type of tabloid
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References
[edit]- “scandal sheet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.