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yellow

yellow

10 7.7
News that uses shocking or untrue stories to attract readers
  • adjective
  • /ˈjɛloʊ/
  • Literature
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  • It's a little-known masterpiece of yellow journalism modestly entitled Deadly Deceit: Low Level Radiation, High Level Coverup.
  • yellow journalism
  • a yellow newspaper
  • yellow press

And the rest of it was a basically mud smearing yellow journalism from The Intercept not long before Glenn Greenwald left in protest himself.

Examples

  • Many believe that yellow journalism undermines trust in the media by prioritizing scandal over truth.

  • The article was criticized for its yellow journalism, focusing only on sensational details rather than facts.

  • What kind of muckraking yellow journalist are you?!

  • No, it's those damn yellow journalists that's the trouble.

  • I'll be able to find out what's really going on in the world... not have to read about it in the yellow press like most people.

  • For example, when she was eighty-five years old, the New York World newspaper launched a "yellow journalism" attack, which ultimately led to a legal trial.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Yellow journalism, that's what it is.

  • Talk about yellow journalism.

  • And the rest of it was a basically mud smearing yellow journalism from The Intercept not long before Glenn Greenwald left in protest himself.

  • During the trial, several outlets resorted to yellow journalism, reporting exaggerated claims and personal details.

Synonyms

sensationalistic
vsyellow
  • Literature
3 8.2

Presenting news to make people excited, often ignoring the facts

is more biased and aims at scandalous or lurid content
scandalmongering
vsyellow
  • Literature
8.6

Writing or media that looks for scandals to attract readers

is broader, covering lurid or biased stories beyond just scandal

Antonyms

2.0

Important and needing careful thought because it can have large effects

3.4

Relating to a job that needs special training and skill

Idioms

To start a journey into the unknown that brings adventure and personal change

Compounds

12 1.0

A very strong yellow color that is easy to see

yellow pages
  • Archaic
10 1.8

A book of local businesses and services printed on yellow paper

yellow fever
  • Specialized
9 3.7

A serious disease spread by mosquitoes that makes the skin turn yellow

6 1.8

A traffic signal that warns drivers to slow down and prepare to stop

yellow-bellied
  • Offensive
5 7.9

Being too afraid to do things that need courage

4 1.0

A light yellow colour that looks soft and not bright

4 2.1

A taxi painted yellow seen in cities like New York

4 7.2

A path toward a dream that has problems and surprises

3 2.5

A bright yellow like the outside of a lemon

yellow journalism
  • Literature
2 5.2

Reporting that exaggerates and uses shocking stories to attract readers while ignoring the truth

A bright yellow color like a canary's feathers

1 3.4

The second-longest river in northern China that flows east to the Yellow Sea and has yellow mud

1 2.7

A long yellow vegetable with soft skin that you cook and eat

1 3.6

A small aggressive wasp with yellow and black stripes that often builds nests in the ground

cadmium yellow
  • Specialized
1 8.3

A bright yellow pigment made from cadmium used in painting that is poisonous

A yellow color with a little green

1 5.1

A freshwater fish with a yellow body and dark stripes, caught for food and sport

yellow ocher
  • Specialized
1 6.7

A natural yellow pigment from earth used for painting

Having yellow spots on its surface

chrome yellow
  • Archaic
1 8.5

A bright yellow paint made from lead and used for painting

code yellow
  • Jargon
1 6.8

An alert warning people about a specific emergency, for example bad weather or a missing person

A pale yellow color like cream

A warm yellow color like gold

yellow bile
  • Archaic
1 9.9

An old medical idea that a fluid from the liver makes people angry

1 4.8

A tall plant with yellow iris flowers that grows in wet places

yellow journalist
  • Literature
1 7.7

A reporter who writes exaggerated or shocking stories to attract readers

1 3.5

A pine tree that has hard yellowish wood people use for building and furniture

A small woodpecker with a pale yellow belly that drills rows of holes in trees to eat sap and insects

1 2.0

A brownish yellow color like dry autumn leaves

With yellow lines on the surface, often on animals or objects

A color between yellow and orange, like a sunset

1 2.5

A pale white color with a little yellow

A yellow color with a little brown that looks warm and dull

A color between brown and yellow

cadmium yellow pale
  • Specialized
9.7

A pale yellow paint color used by artists

8.6

A sticky plant with hanging yellow flowers that grows in dry places in the southwestern United States

A bright light yellow color like a canary's feathers

A yellow color with a touch of red

A strong, intense yellow like a ripe pumpkin

A small wild flower that has soft hairy leaves and yellow petals with purple veins

alizarin yellow
  • Specialized
9.9

A yellow dye used in paints, fabrics, and chemistry

9.9

A North American wild flower with greenish-yellow pouch-shaped flowers and purple marks

A clover with yellow flowers that grows in Ireland and is often seen as the real shamrock

A large European plant with yellow flower clusters used in medicine

onion yellow dwarf
  • Specialized
7.4

A virus that makes onion plants small and their leaves turn yellow

6.2

A virus that makes onion plants grow poorly and their leaves turn yellow

A bright yellow color with a small touch of orange

potato yellow dwarf
  • Specialized
5.6

A disease of potato plants that makes leaves yellow and plants small

6.1

A germ that makes potato plants small and their leaves turn yellow

5.1

A bright pale yellow like a lemon or an egg yolk

tall yellow-eye
  • Australian
9.9

A tall Australian plant with yellow flowers that comes back each year

A large pine tree with short needles in groups of two or three and reddish brown bark when fully grown

A large pine tree from the southeastern United States with long needles and rough reddish bark used for timber

A tall pine tree from western North America with dark green needles

Wood from the western yellow pine tree used for building and furniture

A common wild flower with nodding yellow or red petals spotted with brown

A plant that lives many years with yellow flowers that smell nice and leafy stems

A plant that lives for many years with bright yellow flowers

A plant that grows in bogs and has spikes of yellow-orange flowers

yellow bass
  • Specialized
7.7

A small freshwater fish with yellowish colour that looks like a striped bass

yellow adder's tongue
  • Specialized
9.9

A small North American spring flower with one yellow spotted blossom

yellow ageratum
  • Specialized
8.8

A small shrub with yellow daisy-like flowers that grows in dry Mediterranean areas

A long thin vegetable with yellow pods that you eat

A common plant with small yellow flowers that lives many years

A common weed grass with yellow, rough, stiff seed heads

A common grass that grows as a weed in fields with bristly seed heads

9.9

A low-growing plant with yellow flowers that have red dots and smell faintly of pine

9.9

A sticky desert plant with hanging yellow flowers

A small fruit from buckthorn plants used to make yellow dye

6.1

A North American tree with thin shiny yellow or gray bark and strong wood

yellow bone marrow
  • Specialized
6.1

Tissue inside the hollow part of long bones in adults that stores fat

A small European bird whose male has bright yellow feathers

A common plant that lives for many years with small yellow flowers and sticky stems

How Sensational

sensational
95 4.1
yellow
  • Literature
10 7.7
tabloid
  • Literature
188 3.7
serious
2.0

Surface Forms

yellow positive

Etymology

Yellow in the phrase yellow journalism comes from a famous cartoon called the 'Yellow Kid' that appeared in cheap, attention-seeking papers, so 'yellow' here means sensational or low-quality news.