say it: sen-say-shuh-nuh-LI-stik
sensationalistic is an adjective meaning "typical of tabloids". It carries one recorded sense.
typical of tabloids
“sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal”
“yellow press”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sensationalistic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.