Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who indulges in sensational behavior or action.

  2. One who believes or espouses the philosophy of sensationalism.

More definitions
  • someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The title of the article is sensationalist.

    deDer Titel des Artikels ist sehr reißerisch. — quicksanddiver

  2. This newspaper's content is dry, sensationalist, and irrelevant.

  3. Only sensationalist authors would claim that Berbers originate from Yemen.

Forms

plural: sensationalists
Singularsensationalist
Pluralsensationalists

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention:ballyhoo artist

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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