| 单词 | sensation-mongering |
| 释义 | > as lemmassensation-mongering a. Objective with agent nouns, verbal nouns, and participial adjectives, and instrumental, as sensation-giving, sensation-hungry, sensation-monger, sensation-mongering, etc. ΚΠ 1842 Athenæum 16 Apr. 340/2 An interest..less morbid than the mere sensation-seeker craves. 1860 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 16 Apr. Some of the sensation-mongers of Boston took it into their heads, a few days ago, to get up another alarm at old Concord. 1885 Outing June 369/1 Unduly embittered and intensified by sensation-hungry harpies of the daily press. 1937 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 10 520 He spends it, plus some hard-earned money, in a sensation-giving activity that satisfies for the moment but leaves him as empty of real enjoyment as he was before he had so much leisure. 1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing v. 86 She was sorry to disappoint the expectations of sensation-hungry journalists. 1990 F. Tustin Protective Shell in Children & Adults 107 At first, basic sensation-giving materials such as sand, water, clay, and plasticine or playdough are likely to be used much more by autistic children than are toys. 2009 M. Podritske Objectively Speaking 72 There will always be sensation-mongering newspapers that attempt to exaggerate the accusations and do injustice to the defendant. < as lemmas |
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