idle rumor
Example Sentences
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Lady Gregory describes in her notes on Spreading the News how the play grew out of an idea of picturing tragic consequences from idle rumor and defamation of character.
From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus
She supposed, when she thought of it at all, that it was some such idle rumor as frequently arose concerning the discovery of some suspected person implicated in the murder of Ailsie Dunbar.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
It is no idle rumor that I have told you.
From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Perhaps no foe has more injured mankind than idle rumor.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by Christy, F. Earl
That ain't any idle rumor, either, nor something that was hinted to me casual.
From On With Torchy by Lincoln, Foster
