英和和英

名詞

scandal sheet (plural scandal sheets)

1. (informal) A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.
   • 1965, "Cinema: Career Girl's Question" (film review of Sex and the Single Girl), Time, 1 Jan.:

     Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an exposé of her.

   • 1975 December 20, “Tory Tidbits”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 2:

     London's leading scandal sheet, The Daily Mirror, has been investigating the story with great relish and its most recent expose on the case featured by-lines by nine reporters.