gossipry

NOUN

talebearing

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account babble back-fence talk blather blether buzz calumny chatter chitchat chronicle clothesline conversation cry defamation dirty laundry dirty linen dirty wash earful grapevine hearsay idle talk injury malicious talk meddling news prate prattle report rumor scandal scuttlebutt slander small talk story tale talk tattle tittle-tattle whispering campaign wire word

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Once upon a time there lived a husband and wife, and they were both bound in gossipry with a certain man.

From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane

It is brimming with the delicious horror of excited gossipry.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

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

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

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