gossip

The pseudonym Perez Hilton is a reference to Paris Hilton who was at the height of her fame when the celebrity gossip blog was launched in 2005.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

This piece of gossip soon begins to cloud Elliot’s life and better judgement.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

If gossip and snark is what you’re after, try Lena Dunham’s episode where she talks about an awkward meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook and quitting vaping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

But there is little in the public record to document this, other than items in the gossip pages about their golf bouts.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg’s wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Then gossips chattered that a huge “bear raid,” or manipulation of stocks by short sellers, would be launched the following morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

Rosenblum snaps back to the beginning of the summer, where she lays out her rogues’ gallery of gossips, hypocrites, cheaters.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

She’s the one person in town who never gossips or says bad things about people.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

As spectators filed through security screening then streamed into the courtroom, they gossiped as key players strode by as though in a stage play, including Dick Harpootlian, the lead defense lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Some are afraid that if they reveal too much they could be gossiped about.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

She sighed, wistful, and rested her chin in her hand, gazing down to where people lived and danced and loved and gossiped and didn’t ever eat kimril if they didn’t want to.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

If I succeed in my object I shall consider that I have gossipped to some purpose.

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

"Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

I run on like this, because you say you like to be gossipped to; and I am just a little lonely here—sometimes.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The town gossipped itself nearly crazy, but without any satisfactory result.

From Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

She sank lower than ever; she missed going to her work oftener, gossipped for whole days, and became as soft as a rag whenever she had any work to do.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

“It’s like, ‘We don’t want to hear from you when we’re gossiping about you,’” said social media consultant Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

I briefly joined a book club of some work colleagues when I was teaching in rural Illinois, and it was fun, but most of our time was spent gossiping about, well, work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

The last few weeks of celebrity gossiping, scheming and the occasional fart may feel like one big crazy jumbled dream.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

“If he was under the Imperius Curse, he’d hardly stand around gossiping about their plans, would he?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

It would be necessary to keep Roberts from gossipping, and for that reason it was policy to discount the importance of his information.

From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest

Of what do you suppose he would have informed us, had he indulged this bibliographical gossipping?

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Though our family was a veritable lunatic asylum of poets, no one cared to translate the good creature's gossipping garrulity into verse.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

Jim had no intimates, and had he chosen such, Mr. Holtz, gossipping, idle, stingy, and shallow of brain, would scarcely have been the man.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch