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scandal sheet

n.
A periodical, such as a newspaper, that habitually prints gossip or scandalous stories.
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scan′dal sheet`


n.
a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal and gossip.
[1900–05]
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scandal sheet

n (pej inf)Skandalblatt nt (pej)
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He was painted as a cuckold by the scandal sheets in Argentina four years ago after starting a relationship with Wanda Nara, the ex-wife of his former Sampdoria team-mate Maxi Lopez.
In his memoir, he said that his career flourished despite some innuendo and smear articles in the scandal sheets -- "clear evidence that despite its self-righteous claims, 'Confidential' magazine did not influence the taste and opinions of mainstream America."
Caserta's I Ran Into Some Trouble, written with Maggie Falcon, bypasses the scandal sheets to explain Caserta's perspective on a life thoroughly lived.
The Leeds-based writer was a teenage mum, and while scandal sheets would have us believe that such a thing leads to ruin and dashed dreams, Mellor is proof positive that that needn't be the case.
In the 1940s and 1950s, scandal sheets like Confidential and Whisper routinely threatened to publish salacious photos of stars like Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter or Guy Madison.
Anyway, I was scanning the rival scandal sheets in search of something to pinch and claim as my own when, in one of those posh papers where readers invariably write smarter stuff than anything the hacks can manage, I came across a letter to the editor from Sue Martin of Newcastle.
While Britain loves its scandal sheets, even more than the United States, News of the World was its best selling.
The book is a lively recounting of Bannister's career with the supermarket scandal sheets, which began when he left his native England in the early 1970s to work for the Florida-based Enquirer.
The mini mogul is happy for his scandal sheets to dish out criticism, but can't take it himself.
Barrington's career is carefully researched and the newspaper reports and scandal sheets have been studied and recorded with great effect.
Dennis's chapter on the "flash" newspapers--a short-lived syndicate of scandal sheets that appeared in the early 1840s--has been scooped: Last year, Cohen, Gilfoyle, and Horowitz produced The Flash Press, an exhaustive introduction to the papers, published with excerpts.