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单词 police-monger
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police-monger
police-monger n. now historical and rare a person who is preoccupied with the policing of a community.
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1808 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 26 111 For the sake of pretending to be useful, these new police-mongers will pry into every peculiarity, and meddle with every amusement of the people.
1896 C. E. Roche tr. Vicomte P. F. de Barras Mem. IV. iii. 164 It would therefore seem that it was agreed upon between the First Consul, Fouche, and a few police-mongers at that time hanging about the Minister of Police, that a Jacobin conspiracy should be fomented.
2007 B. Wilson Making of Victorian Values ix. 246 The wealthy and respectable..took the character of the whole class from their carriage windows or from police reports in newspapers, lurid stories retailed by ‘police-mongers’.
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