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    1. ‘When was this, Doreen?’ I asked as casually as I can, trying to be convincing as a gossip


    2. He found some old gossip rag entries that should have come up on Ava's search also since they linked her with him


    3. He looked thru old gossip for the Brazilians


    4. " He knew that from listening to some of the gossip that went around in theirs


    5. The law made no distinction for the number of clones, but Ava would be huge in lurid gossip back in the League they left


    6. Glenelle really shouldn't be listening in on this family gossip but she was fascinated


    7. This man is impartial, he refuses to gossip, gets along with the members and tries to perfect the saints


    8. The gossip says his name has been connected with several of the local ladies at various times over the years, though he’s never married


    9. Raincoat: If you are wearing a raincoat while it is raining, there is no need to worry; nobody believes certain gossip about you


    10. That’s such a common thread of gossip about anyone … and the source of the gossip was known to have a grudge against her

    11. "I'm sure you heard about our son, there's no way gossip like that stays clean on a ship like this


    12. Gerde was indeed delighted with the flowers, scurrying around happily finding vases and chattering about the latest gossip


    13. ‘She has been recognised by several people since then and I daresay the gossip in Sulis Min has been rife on the subject


    14. There had been speculation at one time about their relationship, but he would have none of the gossip around camp


    15. JOYCE: Objection, your Honor, the counsel is accumulating gossip and hearsay


    16. From the gossip columns there'd been veiled rumours of his associations with certain criminal elements, but then I'd imagine after-show parties and nightclubs must have been brimming with suspicious characters in those days


    17. She was famed throughout the elite echelons of London’s highest society for humping and dumping the most eligible young men, and all of it was done in the blaze of paparazzi flashbulbs and on the glossy pages of celebrity gossip magazines


    18. "Fine," he said, their personal lives had been nothing but lawyers and gossip hounds the last five or six weeks


    19. She’s not a bitch generally, just not terribly bright and it’s fashionable to gossip and speculate


    20. 'Can I do the accounts or should we gossip about my students?' I glared at

    21. ‘I’ll wait to hear what develops, Sally, but don’t worry, I shan’t gossip


    22. those that are jealous: whether it's by gossip or something else


    23. She had to endure a demeaning gossip session with Yellelle when she showed up in their guest room


    24. ’ I said, unwilling to pass on Dave’s gossip


    25. old soldier, and had been given to understand from gossip around the


    26. “The local gossip has it that you were stationed hereabouts during


    27. A bit of gossip to store away for a rainy day


    28. Ava spent a little time in idle gossip with this creepy grey man while Jorma sat there and looked around the room


    29. She did not interrogate him directly about how her vacant body came to wind up at the Kassikan after that, but they did talk of those days and of her fiery courtship by the Brazilian and what the gossip rags did with it at the time


    30. just fresh gossip, to the gathered audience

    31. Had someone noticed something was going on and mentioned it locally? These rural places were rife with gossip – anyone with a juicy bit of surmise would doubtless have passed it on


    32. that have nothing better to do in life than gossip at the club and run down the lives


    33. “There’s just me and Marsi and she doesn’t sit and gossip with me much, she rarely stays home when she’s off duty


    34. a fault, it was that he loved gossip


    35. Now don't you think it would be more beneficial to investigate the management of the rivers than gossip about the comings and goings of the notable folk which these pages belabor without end


    36. 'Always happy to gossip – you know me


    37. They chatted a few minutes about some local gossip


    38. He was not even hearing the gossip about it


    39. share the latest news and gossip


    40. Nor has the Council ever spent its time dealing in gossip," the High-Mage Nicola said, looking toward Katrina who sneered back at her through the holes in her veil

    41. To top that off, the probes from Biology Base soon started picking up gossip about 'an attack by ghost machines from outer space only a hundred miles out the Kimoneea


    42. As she munched her breakfast of barley bread, the kitchen gossip was that Theoton was in a fine mood


    43. This gossip loving woman had urged the slaves who carried her to run


    44. He had not seen Crissy for a while and knew that she’d like to catch up on all the latest gossip


    45. “I’m…I’m not so much concerned with that sort of gossip


    46. He provided hardly any details of course, but rather round-about questions about rumors and any particularly intriguing gossip regarding the man named Roscius


    47. And Architalos was full of gossip after that trial when you, er, translated


    48. For the others, including Pim, this meant restocking the ship, catching up on the latest trade gossip, trips down to the pristine lands and seas of Sheranara


    49. Every six months or so he would put some new gossip out onto the grapevine


    50. gossip than anything else and they will be













































    1. It had been a tempestuous twenty Earth years, their native servants had gossiped ceaselessly, but Tdeshi's hormones had always seen her thru the rage and the hurt


    2. When Kelia would come home after school, she and Lunarey would talk endlessly, mostly about things from Kelia's life, like her latest crush at school, or what her friend recently gossiped to her about


    3. I sloughed over the way the villagers gossiped about me


    4. As they sat eating their sandwiches and drinking coffee, Trueman gossiped about the idiosyncrasies of Company A’s various officers and NCOs


    5. The slaves mostly worked in silence, with an occasional comment to another slave about the work; the guards with shields and spears often joked or gossiped to each other, or shouted threats at slaves


    6. They mostly sat out every activity and checked their reflections in the lake and did their hair and gossiped


    7. Six hours convinced me hitch hiking was not an option so I endured third class, wooden train seats, surrounded by fat mothers shouting “Jose, Maria, aqui!” as they peeled boiled eggs, tore open bread rolls and gossiped while their scrawny, wrinkled husbands drank wine from basket-covered bottles and smoked foul-smelling cigarettes


    8. gossiped a lot about officers and their lifestyle,


    9. As they gossiped after breakfast, the topic of children cropped up in time


    10. ‘Yes, we could have gossiped about all sorts of things

    11. Out here, where malicious fantasy is a gossiped reality, everyone is a potential enemy, thus requiring that you need to be protected from them


    12. Then, when they discovered what the numbers against the square, 3--4, meant, the horror was swept away in indignation, for it was the hour in the afternoon in which they usually mended or knitted and gossiped together, and it appeared that the Frau Pastor intended to come and sit with them during this hour and read aloud


    13. believe what his neighbor gossiped about his friend


    14. She'd broken his heart when she gossiped with Sarah then she'd gone and fucked Shay Donovan


    15. It had been a while, years, really, since any of them had gossiped about each other with the exception of Claire and Dylan had been dying to dish about Massie


    16. I and Pihu gossiped, not in the literal sense of the word, but yet that was the best conversation I have had with a girl friend in a long time


    17. Now this lady was a thin, yellow spinster, with a sharp nose and inquisitive eyes, who saw everything and gossiped about all she saw


    18. The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party


    19. That was curious: monks gossiped constantly


    20. ‘Stiva gossiped about it all

    21. He was reading a book, and thinking of what he was reading, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and work in the future rose disconnectedly before his imagination


    22. People met as they were going away, and gossiped of the latest news, of the newly bestowed honors and the changes in the positions of the higher functionaries


    23. Scarlett knew the town gossiped about Rhett’s calls, and about her too; but she defended Rhett his calls were still tinged with respectability


    24. Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing? If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face down-most for ages on a forsaken beach, or "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests," it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:—this world being apparently a huge whispering-gallery


    25. The three still stood overlooking the courts, and underneath it a couple of Malay women sat exactly where the feet of the tortured man had hung, on ground that had been soaked in blood, and gossiped while their children played around


    26. In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manoeuvres in the forest ceased; and he resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of something else


    27. It is probable that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal about the chief justice


    28. … The creation of Marilyn Monroe had made an unwanted girl of the streets the most desired, written about, analyzed, gossiped about, wondered about and longed for woman of her era


    29. Still, it’s very interesting that what was once just gossiped about by secondhand sources and then reported by a slew of biographers turns out to actually be material found in the FBI files


    30. "Stiva gossiped about it all

    31. Society had gossiped and slandered him; shallow-minded people had looked with contempt on a man who had been struck in the face


    32. Everything is gossiped about in this place


    1. "Could Ava be driving the cherub that calls itself Yellelle?" Heymon asked them once they were done gossiping about Thom's personal problems


    2. gossiping about it and pointing your finger


    3. Everyone else stood around gossiping about the ascension, but Isis, Griffin, and Willow came to stand near me


    4. She hit the ground disgusted and went to share her story with the rest of the gossiping hens in the fenced in yard


    5. Only one customer was in, but she didn’t want old Mrs McLeavy gossiping to the whole village about her call


    6. Gossiping surmise, she saw, had put this mistaken idea into Una's mind


    7. She hadn’t told anyone of his visit the night before in case they started gossiping


    8. She only knew what Alex told her and only kept it a secret because she didn't want people gossiping about the family at the 'county club'


    9. gossiping that pervades our society and infects the Body of Christ


    10. Gossiping and slander can be compared to "friendly fire," a term

    11. The old gossiping grape vine was coming alive, as it had


    12. The tavern was filled with gossiping citizens and soldiers loyal to the Baroness


    13. Unfortunately the negative attitudes of people are still looming, but I am sure that they have realized that I had no interest in all the gossiping, criticizing and blame shifting and that was now the challenge of


    14. His family house was three rooms up a barren concrete staircase lined with chickens and their shit, snotty-nosed kids, women gossiping, evil cooking-smells and the ubiquitous Arab music on radios turned up too loud


    15. When everyone was talking, joshing and gossiping, Robert would switch off


    16. Interpretation: The Page of Swords brings news and communication from a bright young person with an excellent mind, quick to learn, good at puzzles, diplomatic, enjoys gossiping and skilled with the ability to work out the true nature of things


    17. Who? Wow, you would think this is a tiny gossiping town, not Chicago


    18. The birds were naturally best of all at tale-telling and passing on information, but when they were gossiping, some species were not above spicing up their stories or passing on as truth what was really only their own interpretations


    19. Some of the animals had developed the habit of eavesdropping on humans and then gossiping about them, and they were glad to keep on doing this for Palomita and Squirrel Girl


    20. Luckily, they were over-attuned with their gossiping

    21. “By the way,” he said as he turned towards the foyer, recalling the staff’s penchant for gossiping, “did you tell anyone else about what you saw last night?”


    22. Once the boots were on, she stood up to retrieve her jacket from her peg, and realised that the other instructors were gossiping about ski patrol, which piqued her interest


    23. They were playing cards and gossiping at the nearby camp


    24. Sharma started gossiping about the neighbourhood uncles and aunties and their families, their linkups, their break ups and blah and blah


    25. gossiping about the ‘whisperer’ and what an awful


    26. Many times when you look at Jesus' ministry, you find Him subject to verbal abuse, constant accusations, constant gossiping about Him, words spoken


    27. Having realized that it was already ten, she felt worried and thought, ‘What could have held him up? Why, the homebody that he is, he comes home straight, doesn’t he? Is it possible that he’s in some trouble? Or, is he gossiping with Prasad? Why don’t I find out from Prasad? Anyway, let me wait for a while


    28. I can laugh loudest and longest when I see a caricature of a coloured woman gossiping with her neighbour over the fence – it happens in my family even though now it is over the Cellphone, and sometimes in the doctor’s waiting room


    29. for 12 years under a cloud of contempt, whispering, gossiping by the "saints" of the day,


    30. Passively gossiping - i

    31. To my credit, I can't recall a single time in my life that I have participated in blatant gossiping


    32. I’ve written about the passive gossiping before


    33. There would be no more gossiping servants or sneaking around


    34. Gossiping is the easiest social act with the greatest social impact


    35. Gabriel looked at her, “do you need to leave? You should go, I‘m sorry about today, it‘s just that I don’t know if you know but there was some gossiping in the company a year after you left they thought you had been pregnant, I thought-”


    36. The crowd returns to their gossiping


    37. They try to calm their disturbed mind by diverting the mind elsewhere, by watching television, consuming alcohol, gambling, gossiping, etc


    38. We climbed into Bethanie's goosedown bed, giggling and gossiping like old times, until our eyes grew heavy with sleep


    39. Still others stood gossiping


    40. When they arrived at Henry Macnock's store the elderly man was back at work behind the counter and the store was full of customers gossiping about the trial

    41. All of the women that were out and about had learned of it and a covey of them were engaged in sipping and gossiping at the back of the store


    42. Soon, mostly members slept away, some artists were gossiping sitting outside of the house while he was busy with other five members of the team


    43. Jhamed chattered away, gossiping about this and that


    44. believed, gossiping is more about disproportionate smoke of the actual fire and he had no


    45. He must have heard her gossiping


    46. A group of women was gossiping


    47. The absence of a father, the strong, domineering, businesswoman mother and our preoccupation with beauty and femininity in a milieu of giggling, gossiping women was bound to divert my normal sexual orientation


    48. Don’t go on gossiping, don’t go on talking


    49. She could sit with Elena and Felicity, but then people would probably start gossiping about them too, and even though Monica offered to sit with her, Courtney didn't want her sister's pity


    50. Massie rolled her eyes before turning her attention to Shea, gossiping about a girl who was said to be pregnant


























    1. all this meant, and behold! all the gossips of the town were standing


    2. If a single minister calls twice at a house where there is a single woman all the gossips have it he is courting her


    3. Not once did any of the manse children set the Glen gossips by the ears


    4. I want to explain to everybody how it was I came to go to church without stockings on, so that everybody will know that father was not to blame one bit for it, and the old gossips need not say he is, because it is not true


    5. Father does not look at people's legs in church, so of course he did not notice mine, but all the gossips did and talked about it, and that is why I am writing this letter to the _Journal_ to explain


    6. In public she carried off the situation splendidly, saying to all the gossips the substance of what Anne had said in daffodil time, and saying it so pointedly and forcibly that her hearers found themselves feeling rather foolish and began to think that, after all, they were making too much of a childish prank


    7. “Well we all know how bad the gossips are around here” I said narrowing my eyes at my Nan trying to make her remember what happened in the past without me having to say it out loud


    8. This would have provoked a deep attack of shame on me; considering I did not want to undress my non-corresponded feeling in front of the eyes of strange persons, for very dear that they were, propitiating the class of gossips of which I had fled all my life


    9. That would throw off the guessers and gossips that inhabited the bowels of the DS headquarters building


    10. know anything about anything, and the gossips had already started to speculate as

    11. For one thing, she had heard a number of gossips at the base hairstyling salon, where she was working, about navy yard workers having to repair some kind of battle damage to the cruiser PORT ROYAL


    12. Yosef, growing fed up with so much meanness, had finally brought Miriam to Bethlehem a month ago to make her escape the gossips in Nazareth


    13. Yosef then remembered the gossips about Miriam possibly bedding a Roman soldier and anger flared in him


    14. My hands were full; I had no time for gossips and chit-chat, because every second was valuable for me


    15. There were gossips and ridicules everywhere amongst the villagers about me


    16. The El Mundo gossips have been speculating since early morning about the Japanese guy


    17. If not if I am seen with Third Brother alone by the pugilists, there are bound to be gossips


    18. dignity, the proper propriety rites of the times, the gossips, her natural coyness coupled with her shyness caused her unable to dare stay alone with Nangong Ping


    19. We have created a global community of gossips


    20. “We react to Wikileaks as if it's a reality show of political gossips

    21. "There are gossips about you carrying out adultery with Ananda Ali


    22. “Not all of them are gossips like the stereotype would suggest


    23. The gossips began to eat away at the truth like worms in a compost heap and D


    24. � When we reflect critically on the meaning perspective that motivates the "us" group of gossips, we can see they live out the truth of the I/Thou idea


    25. � The gossips become an "It" even as they reify others into the "It


    26. Do not by deserting me let my shame become the talk of the gossips in the streets; make not the old age of my parents miserable; for the loyal services they as faithful vassals have ever rendered thine are not deserving of such a return; and if thou thinkest it will debase thy blood to mingle it with mine, reflect that there is little or no nobility in the world that has not travelled the same road, and that in illustrious lineages it is not the woman's blood that is of account; and, moreover, that true nobility consists in virtue, and if thou art wanting in that, refusing me what in justice thou owest me, then even I have higher claims to nobility than thine


    27. would favour with his addresses; in short my two gossips exhausted all


    28. In fine, the gossips of that day believed,—and Mr


    29. If the gossips are to be credited, Count Philippe has sworn that, for the first time on record, the Chagnys shall not keep their promise


    30. You know what gossips are

    31. But enough of this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezukhov, and his inheritance


    32. Fantine heard the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she thought of Tholomyes, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew gloomy toward that man


    33. This time the good gossips had no trouble


    34. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come


    35. That thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes Saint-Marcel


    36. They were famous gossips, always with heads together over some choice bit


    37. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway


    38. When Jaume was just a boy, all the court gossips claimed he was weak, unworthy to rule dels Flors


    39. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama


    40. Again, what was to prevent this whole troop of Mordasoff gossips from coming en masse to her salon, under such a plausible plea, too, that she would not be able to turn them out

    41. But enough of this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance


    42. “Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards with a smile


    43. Gabriel marries an unsatisfactory young woman in the vicinity, Ophelia Gusset, and retains Joan as his consoler and friend in a virtuous but high-strung companionship, out of which the country gossips, who hear of it through a spying servant, develop a slander


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    Synonyms for "gossip"

    causerie chin-wag chin-wagging chin wag chin wagging chit-chat chit chat chitchat gab gabfest gossip small talk tittle-tattle comment scuttlebutt gossiper gossipmonger newsmonger rumormonger rumourmonger chaffer chat chatter chew the fat claver confab confabulate jaw natter shoot the breeze visit dish the dirt snoop meddler tattler chatterbox blabbermouth chatterer rumour hearsay scandal news slander calumny defamation tattle prattle blab palaver noise prate

    "gossip" definitions

    light informal conversation for social occasions


    a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people


    a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others


    wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies


    talk socially without exchanging too much information