gossip

In 1941 Der Chef began delivering a salacious mix of gossip and foulmouthed fake news to German listeners over shortwave radio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

Hilton, born Mario Lavandeira Jr., has been a pop culture personality since the early aughts when he launched his eponymous celebrity gossip rag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

“I have some old contacts who hear gossip other people don’t. I’ll seek them out, see if they’ve heard anything about the Immortal. Ratwin’ll do the same.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Capitol Hill gossips, including journalists from whom one might have hoped to hear something before now, evidently knew about Mr. Swalwell’s behavior for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

Everybody gossips and everybody gets up to things.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2023

Some rely on it as a confidant, for it’s known to have a compassionate, impartial ear, and never gossips.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

Fortunately, another girl from Irishtown visited after lunch and the two gossiped in the parlor for so long that afterward Fiona had to speed through her chores.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Gradually it became gossipped about that the Duke of Bolton's suit had succeeded.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Charles Edward Pearce

That as a rule, he gossipped and shared his tobacco with sailors and fishermen, and brought out the sock much oftener than was prudent for the benefit of the ragged boys who haunt the quay.

From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various

Soon the rest who had wondered and praised and blamed and gossipped forgot about him; they had no more attention to give him, no more flattery, no more allegiance.

From Quisanté by Anthony Hope

Major Eaton, Old Hickory's first Secretary of War, had married a beautiful widow, maiden name Peggy O'Neil, of common birth, and much gossipped about.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

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

From Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

It was lunchtime, and this Chili’s in suburban Dallas was hopping: office friends gossiping, parents eating chips and salsa, their kids gaming on Chili’s-branded Ziosk tablets.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025

After being rejected, Venessa, also then in her mid-twenties, sent Jay a series of "angry and accusatory" messages, saying he was gossiping about her.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

But they were just gossiping about who’s going out with who in the sixth form, and playing Police singles.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

A kiss, at a dance, was all they could say in their gossipping, but he had kissed Annette, and she was by no means the flower of his heart.

From The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by Fanny Fuller

I’m not their maid, and she had no business to stand here gossipping about Miss Nevins.

From The Girls at Mount Morris by Amanda Minnie Douglas

"It is true," says Baillet, "that this Puteanus passed for a gossipping sort of writer, and for a great maker of little books, but he was, notwithstanding, a very clever fellow."

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

"We've no right to be gossipping here all night."

From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther