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Definition: Sensationalist |
SensationalistNoun1. Someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SensationalistSynonym: ballyhoo artist (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sensationalist |
| English words defined with "sensationalist": tabloid ♦ yellow journalism. (references) |
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Economic History | Greece | The Greek media, collectively, is a very influential institution--usually aggressive, sensationalist, and frequently irresponsible with regard to content. (references) |
Minorities | Lithuania | A certain level of anti-Semitic sentiment persisted in the country, reflected in sporadic public incidents of anti-Semitism and the sensationalist exploitation of anti-Semitism for commercial gain. (references) |
Political Rights | Singapore | The ban, which ostensibly is to prevent the sensationalist or emotional effect that video or film productions could have on political issues, applies to the PAP as well as opposition parties. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sensationalist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sensationalist" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sensationalist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاتب الإثارة, مروج الأخبارالمثيرة, مروج الأخبار (newsmonger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | colporteur de nouvelles sensation, colporteur de nouvelles, auteur sensation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sensations-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταχειριζόμενοσ εντυπωσιακάσ μεθόδουσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szenzációs hírek terjesztője (sensationist, sensation-monger), szenzációkat hajhászó (sensationist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensationalistsay сенсуалист (sensualist). (various references) sensacionalista (sensational). (various references) ซึ่งแส"งความรู้สึก. (various references) сенсуаліст (sensualist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sensationalist": sensationalistic, sensationalists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sensationalist" (pronounced sensā"shunuli'st) |
| 5 | -u l i' s t | dualist, evangelist, experimentalist, fatalist, gradualist, minimalist, moralist, revivalist, royalist. |
| 4 | -l i' s t | backlist, blacklist, checklist, realist, stylist. |
| 3 | -i' s t | absurdist, astrophysicist, baptist, bassist, careerist, centrist, chartist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, egotist, essayist, expansionist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, monarchist, monetarist, nativist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, recidivist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, satanist, saxophonist, sexist, soloist, statist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: assentations, nationalises, nationalists. | |
-3 letters: alienations, assentation, atonalities, nationalise, nationalist, saintliness, sanitations, sensational. | |
-4 letters: alienation, atonalists, intestinal, lanosities, lineations, nanoteslas, nasalities, natalities, saintliest, saltations, sanitation, santolinas, satiations, sensations, siltations, siltstones, snottiness, tantalises, tonalities. | |
-5 letters: alienists, analities, annalists, annotates, antialien, antinoise, assistant, assonants, astatines, atonalist, insatiate, insistent, insolates, insolents, intonates, lenitions, lineation, nanotesla, nasalises, nastiness, natations. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: sensationalists. | |
+2 letters: sensationalistic. | |
+4 letters: conversationalists. | |
+5 letters: anticholinesterases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 73 61 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C 69 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n s a t i o n a l i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371808567867581806778758586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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