talebearing
NOUN
gossip
Synonyms
WEAK
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
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
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That I may be averse to Talebearing, Backbiting, Detraction, Slander, & Craft, and overreaching, abhor Extortion, Perjury, and every Kind of wickedness,—Help me, O Father!
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
