gossip

After three orderly decades as a journalist and gossip columnist, Jeannette Walls delivered a shock to readers with this account of her chaotic upbringing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

It’s protecting against bad behavior, and when we throw the baby of insight out with the bathwater of gossip, we are leaving a lot of information on the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

People with well-recognised Cuban-American surnames – like Bacardi and Babun – chat around the pool about the lamentable state of the island's economy, and share titbits of gossip about the latest political rumblings.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

“So please tell me that someone has any gossip aside from all this serious stuff, because I have the best story about this guy in my Algebra II class.”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Then gossips chattered that a huge “bear raid,” or manipulation of stocks by short sellers, would be launched the following morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

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

My face burns with rage; I run away from the gossips.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

Plump, translucent lizards lived behind old pictures, and waxy, crumbling ancestors with tough toe-nails and breath that smelled of yellow maps gossiped in sibilant, papery whispers.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

On the way they gossipped, and the maid expressed a belief that Mr. Lane was a fine young gentleman, but full of his goings-on.

From The Folly Of Eustace 1896 by Robert Smythe Hichens

Paige and Marye did embroidery and gossipped together under the big crystal chandelier while their mother read aloud to them from "Great Expectations," which was running serially in Harper's Weekly.

From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

You may tell her that I came here and gossipped against her, if you like.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

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

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

From Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

“It’s like, ‘We don’t want to hear from you when we’re gossiping about you,’” said social media consultant Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

They would also often meet for dinner, sometimes lavish meals, gossiping and bantering over dim sum, pizza or claypot rice.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

The time guys normally spend learning in GED or college classes, or socializing and building community in prisoner-run workshops, is now wasted inside their cells gossiping and scheming.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

Men stand outside, gossiping and sipping hot drinks.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

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

One word more: In a place like this, where there is so much gossipping, I can't allow you to bear alone the responsibility of this action.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Mr Jones, his curate, has confirmed this statement, although the gossipping and heartless tone of his letters about such a man cannot be too strongly condemned.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

She was gossipping with a man and laughing heartily.

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

His acquaintances, laughing and gossipping round the half-empty wine-glasses, the olives, the scattered fruit, and "the ashes of the weeds of their delight," gave themselves no concern about the weary host.

From The Mark Of Cain by Andrew Lang