He realized that not all the tales of the man's drinking and womanizing achievements were the product of jealous or envious rumour-mongers.
What will these crazy rumour-mongers think of next?
A vigorous entrepreneur and a tremendous rumour-monger, he was to become known as ‘the Father of Tasmania‘.
In fact, establishing anything concrete at all is proving surprisingly difficult, even for hacks of the quality of the Evening Press's own rumour-monger.
Throughout the afternoon, telephones hummed between newspaper offices as the rumour-mongers built their fantasies.
The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
A list of six names was compiled by the gossips and rumour-mongers of Belgravia, among them key figures from high society - aristocracy, government ministers and film stars.
The rumor-mongers may be on to something, even if the president doesn't make his economic advisers walk the plank.
That, however, has not stopped the rumour-mongers speculating on how much they may receive as expenses.
Derivatives
rumour-mongering
noun
derogatory
It is useless to hide the facts or deny the truth - this creates the environment for rumour-mongering to flourish, analysts said.
Example sentencesExamples
It used to be that we had to wait until an election year for negative campaigning, rumor-mongering, mud-slinging, and win-at-all-cost consultants.
He and some other directors began indulging in witch-hunting and rumour-mongering, knowing fully well that such acts only harm the bank.
Much of what they passed off as political analysis was little better than rumor-mongering and garbage-peddling.
He warned members against rumour-mongering and indiscipline which he said threatened to divide and weaken the party in the district.