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
They don't speak of a foolish man, they call him a fool; a cowardly talebearer they call a sneak; and so on to the end of the chapter.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
And whatever allowance may be made for exceptional situations, the instinct which brands the talebearer as mean is mainly wholesome.
From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Brown, Charles Reynolds
