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idle talk
noun as in babble
noun as in gossip
Strong matches
noun as in hot air
Strongest match
Weak matches
noun as in jabberwocky
noun as in mouth
noun as in prattle
noun as in small talk
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 linen
- dirty wash
- earful
- gossipry
- grapevine
- hearsay
- injury
- malicious talk
- meddling
- news
- prate
- prattle
- report
- rumor
- scandal
- scuttlebutt
- slander
- small talk
- story
- tale
- talk
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
- whispering campaign
- wire
- word
noun as in talk
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in twaddle
Example Sentences
He becomes quiet and less boisterous only to stammer out some idle talk and some nonsense.
A truce to jests, which may cost you dearly; tell me at once what your proposals are—I have no time to lose in idle talk.
"It is idle talk, there is nothing," she concluded, with a false smile intended to be allowing.
How wrong he must have been to take the idle talk that people chattered about her and let it influence his thoughts of her.
Now they say that it is the fairies do all this; but it is my opinion it is all idle talk, and people are after being wiser now.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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