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dirty linen
noun as in gossip
Strong matches
noun as in scandal
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in slander
noun as in talebearing
Weak matches
- account
- babble
- back-fence talk
- blather
- blether
- buzz
- calumny
- chatter
- chitchat
- chronicle
- clothesline
- conversation
- cry
- defamation
- dirty laundry
- 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
Example Sentences
The probate process is public, the legal equivalent of washing your dirty linen in the front yard.
She added that "there's a limit to what you can do" from outside cabinet and "what I don't think members want is for us to be airing our dirty linen in public".
The Duke of Sussex has said his "conscience is clear" following his revealing memoir Spare, and that he did not air his "dirty linen in public."
"The army is known for not wanting to wash its dirty linen in public," Hadiza Ado, founder of Women and Children Initiative, told the BBC.
As soon as I was decent, she led me past the dirty linen and out into the baking sun.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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