gossipry
Example Sentences
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It is brimming with the delicious horror of excited gossipry.
This shows, therefore, that gossipry must be judged by its effects.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Crane, Thomas Frederick
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 Clark, Lewis Gaylord
