scandalmongering

Other forms of scandalmongering

plural

scandalmongerings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scandalmongering

What does scandalmongering mean?

scandalmongering means "spreading malicious gossip". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scandalmongering?

scandalmongering has 5 syllables: scan-dal-mon-ge-ring. The stress falls on "mon".

What is another word for scandalmongering?

Close synonyms include sensationalistic, yellow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scandalmongering a common word?

scandalmongering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.