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yellow

yellow

10 7.7
News that uses shocking or untrue stories to attract readers
  • adjective
  • /ˈjɛloʊ/
  • Literature
: amarillista
  • 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.