Usually means: Spreading rumors to damage reputations.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. scandalmongering: Merriam-Webster
  2. scandalmongering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scandalmongering: Vocabulary.com
  4. scandalmongering: Wordnik
  5. scandalmongering: Wiktionary
  6. scandalmongering: Dictionary.com
  7. scandalmongering: Rhymezone
  8. scandalmongering: FreeDictionary.org
  9. scandalmongering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. scandalmongering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scandalmongering: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scandalmongering: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The spreading of salacious gossip.

Similar:
sensationalistic, sensational, yellow, muckraking, scandalmongery, gossipmongering, scandal, talemongering, talebearing, scare story, more...

Opposite:
discretion, prudence, caution, moderation, decorum

Adjectives:
wild, petty, mere, low, such, malicious, much, usual

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Similar:
sensationalistic, sensational, yellow, muckraking, scandalmongery, gossipmongering, scandal, talemongering, talebearing, scare story, more...

Opposite:
discretion, prudence, caution, moderation, decorum

Adjectives:
wild, petty, mere, low, such, malicious, much, usual



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