talebearer
Example Sentences
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“A talebearer revealeth secrets,” says Proverbs in an early complaint, “but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2019
Its talebearer is gaunt, ghost-grey Dr. Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, an oldtime spook-hunter who likes to spend his vacations in haunted houses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unpredictably clever, obscurely erudite, obstinately elusive about answering his own questions, Sloan could be the Comrade V. of novelists: the talebearer as dehumanized intellect.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Where there is no wood the fire goes out; So where there is no talebearer contention ceases."
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
Be no talebearer, nor utterer of falsehoods; be not talkative nor rashly censorious.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
