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gossip
noun as in talk about others; rumor
Strong matches
account, babble, blather, blether, calumny, chronicle, clothesline, cry, defamation, earful, grapevine, injury, meddling, prate, prattle, report, scuttlebutt, story, talk, wire
Weak matches
back-fence talk, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, idle talk, malicious talk, small talk, whispering campaign
noun as in person who talks a lot, spreads
Strong matches
blabbermouth, busybody, chatterbox, chatterer, flibbertigibbet, gossipmonger, informer, meddler, newsmonger, parrot, prattler, rumormonger, scandalmonger, snoop, talebearer, tattler, telltale
Weak matches
verb as in talk about others; spread rumors
Strongest match
Strong matches
babble, blather, blether, chat, chatter, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, prate, prattle, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spread, suggest, talk, tattle
Weak matches
bad-mouth, bend one's ear, cut to pieces, cut up, rattle on, spill the beans, talk idly, tell secrets, tell tales, wiggle-waggle
Example Sentences
Cliques and gossip abound in offices—and in movies about offices.
From a window seat I’d watch the platform glide away as vendors shoved gossip magazines through the bars.
I have no CPA or financial advisers around, and no one to ask that won’t gossip about the money to people that live here.
Walter Winchell, the feared and powerful gossip columnist, raged against her.
It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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