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Example sentences for "mongering"

Lexicographically close words:
moneylenders; moneyless; moneys; mong; monger; mongers; mongoose; mongooses; mongrel; mongrels
  1. He tells the governor that he can talk the treason-mongering Aaron into tameness.

  2. With war and battle and sudden death on every hand and all about them, scandal-mongering ones may still find time and taste for the discussion of the faded Madam Prevost and her boy lover.

  3. Scandal-mongering Rome could not have resisted the dissemination of it.

  4. It seemed a harmless cry enough, but a poor, bald constitution-mongering cry as ever I heard.

  5. One day men will dismiss such confusions by noting that the theory of spiritual healing, an attempt to evade the mass of miracle, is only miracle-mongering of another kind.

  6. Loisy see that he has only been miracle-mongering with a difference?

  7. I don't think that this reason should hinder my having my say about the ballad-mongering business.

  8. However that might be, Athens continued to remain the most aggressively intolerant and tradition-mongering of Hellenic cities.

  9. His mystery-mongering is sometimes perilously close to blatant sensationalism and overt charlatanry; and he seems to be seeking the bald effect for its own sake.

  10. Altho he is ever seeking to awaken curiosity, to arouse the interest of expectancy, and to excite in the spectators a desire to see the thing through, Ibsen refrains from any mere mystery-mongering for its own sake.

  11. The disadvantages of this mystery-mongering have been pointed out by Poe with his wonted acuteness in his criticism of 'Barnaby Rudge.

  12. The malicious bards of the Rolliad hinted that the peerage accrued from some borough-mongering transaction: 'Say, what gave Camelford his wished for rank?

  13. The matter was now widely discussed, and the malady spread rapidly; myth-making and wonder-mongering began; amazing accounts were thus developed and sent out to the world.

  14. Another amiable peculiarity of French-mongering German princelings in their petty monarchies, was man-stealing.

  15. Then and there the Biblical phrases of democrat-mongering kings, under the Holy Alliance, ceased in the high courts of Russia and Prussia.

  16. Time seems to be proving, however, that the amount of noise made over these theory-mongering romances is pretty nearly in adverse ratio to their worth.

  17. It is vanity pure and simple, a common vulgar vanity which substitutes self-advertisement and gossip-mongering for respect and appreciation.

  18. It seemed a harmless cry enough, but a poor, bald, constitution-mongering cry as ever I heard.

  19. There has, for one thing, been a good deal of rather foolish scandal-mongering and raking up of old anecdotes about his gross habits.


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