gossiper

Example Sentences

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With that foot in the door, Ms. Finkel won roles as an extra: a loud gossiper here, an old crone there.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2014

Sometimes gossip has more to do with the gossiper: Witness the joy people take in swapping titillating stories.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2011

When a gossiper is going well he is not necessarily wicked, is often entertaining, sometimes even slightly edifying.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Best you stay away. She’s a nosy gossiper, that one. And the husband fancies himself some kind of educated intellectual. But he’s a mouse. Look at him. Doesn’t he look like a mouse?”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

The newspaper gossiper, disappointed of his sensation, asked if Dempsey had ever heard of Shaw and the fighter stoutly maintained that he had.

From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood