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talebearing
noun as in gossip
Weak matches
- account
- babble
- back-fence talk
- blather
- blether
- buzz
- calumny
- chatter
- chitchat
- chronicle
- clothesline
- conversation
- cry
- defamation
- dirty laundry
- dirty linen
- dirty wash
- earful
- gossipry
- 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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Example Sentences
Elsie Hayden would have been a charming little maiden but for her besetting fault—talebearing.
It excludes all suspicion of partiality, of personal malignity, of secret shying and talebearing.
In verse 17, we learn what ought to take the place of talebearing.
I strongly disapprove of talebearing of any sort, and wish to hear no more of this.
Very little open quarrelling ever took place amongst them; but backbiting and talebearing were universal.
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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to talebearing, such as: blabby, dishing, prattling, repeating, taletelling, and tattling.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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