gossip

He was an engaging, funny and self-deprecating raconteur, ready with the quotable quip and the off-the-record gossip, which always assured him of an audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Wilde’s follow-up, the 2022 psychodrama “Don’t Worry Darling,” became mired in behind-the-scenes gossip and tabloid speculation that overshadowed what was intended as a stylized portrait of female rage and discontent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

It is your one-stop shop for the latest news, insight, expert analysis, fan views, stats and gossip.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

No identity seemed to suit her, and her continued solitude fed the gossip about her alleged witchcraft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Every week, Nok's mother's society friends gathered around her family's dining table for cards, dealing out gossip as they dealt out their hands.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

In the kitchen, Rudolf’s wife, Hedwig, sits and gossips with friends.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

She’s the one person in town who never gossips or says bad things about people.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

Its bar was popular with politicians, security officers and civil servants who gossiped as they sipped their beer after work.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024

Right now, they gossiped as in any other break room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

The thirteen-year age difference between Maggie and Elisha was normal for a courting couple of their time, but Philadelphia society gossiped due to their class difference.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

And what is more to the purpose, it spared him the pain and mortification of knowing that he was gossipped about.

From The Right to Privacy by Brandeis, Louis D.

In company with Lyon she walked up and down the deck, looking so joyous that the men about the place could but remark upon it as they gossipped with each other.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

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 Shaw, Bernard

Had I driven in from Charleville alone I might have gossipped with all the idlers of the village, but now that I am walking with a "Boycotted" person I seem to have become invisible.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

If I succeed in my object I shall consider that I have gossipped to some purpose.

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester

She stayed up until 03:00 gossiping with other women in her room.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

I briefly joined a book club of some work colleagues when I was teaching in rural Illinois, and it was fun, but most of our time was spent gossiping about, well, work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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

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

Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

And so in a few moments we were gossipping cosily about "old times," as we, not very old people, called them.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William

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 Rameur, E.

These rumors were started by the Dubarry servants, in their gossipping with other family servants in the chance meeting in church or village.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

The following, and the last, epistolary specimen of the renowned G. Steevens—with which I shall treat my reader—is of a general gossipping black-letter cast; and was written two years before the preceding.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall