gossipry
Example Sentences
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It is brimming with the delicious horror of excited gossipry.
Some slight misunderstanding on Browning's part, the fruit of mischief-making gossipry, which caused constraint between him and his old friend was cleared away by the good offices of Milsand.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
This shows, therefore, that gossipry must be judged by its effects.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Accordingly two sisters had arrived, Claire and Hermance Tessier, reliable pleasant-faced girls with no family ties in Aramon and with the difference of religion to keep them apart from indiscriminate gossipry.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Pardon my gossipry, ah! kindest of Editors! while I ask if you believe in the lastingness of primary impressions?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
