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What does gossip mean?
Definitions in simple English

gossip

Gossip is information that people pass around about other people's lives, often including things that are unkind or untrue. She spends a lot of time catching up with the newest gossip. A gossip is a person who passes around a lot of this kind of information. Bob is a real gossip.

gossip

To talk about other people's lives, including things that are unkind or untrue. The girls were gossiping about their teachers.

gossip

(= chitchat) light informal conversation for social occasions a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people the divorce caused much gossip a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others (= dish the dirt) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies She won't dish the dirt (= shoot the breeze) talk socially without exchanging too much information the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Synonyms gossip synonyms

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Topics gossip topics

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Conjugation gossip conjugation

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gossip · verb

Examples gossip examples

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Simple sentences

The gossip hurt his reputation.
I have no time to engage in gossip.
He is fond of gossip.
She spread the gossip all over the town.
She is a confirmed gossip.
She is very fond of gossip.
John is a gossip.
He loves to gossip.
Tom isn't one to gossip.
She loves to gossip.
All she does is gossip.
Tom warned Mary that his mother was a gossip who would repeat anything told to her in confidence.
Tom's mother is such a gossip.
She's a real gossip.
You're such a gossip.
Tom and Mary like to gossip about celebrities.
Mary likes to gossip about celebrities.

Movie subtitles

Snow, in all the years I've worked with you, I've disregarded the gossip about you.
Tonight I shall tell you all the gossip from Moscow.
You are becoming an object of disagreeable gossip.
He told me all the army gossip.
The gossip at the hotel was that this man, Beddini. was supplying her with everything.
Oh, you mean this gossip sheet?
Horses, dogs, shooting, yachting, travel, parties, gossip.
Surely you haven't listened to idle gossip.
Now there's something to gossip about!
There's plenty of time for gossip tomorrow.
Because you knew I was dull and gauche and inexperienced. and there could never be any gossip about me.
Gossip?
It's not our function to report the gossip of housewives.
Uncle Jack said if there was any gossip it was about you!
No need to remind you how mad for gossip we Brits are.
You go have your promised dance with the, um, gossip woman.
By tomorrow it'll be Grand Canal gossip.
Don't make too many new friends, and no intrigue and gossip.
The next thing you know, there will be gossip.
I had heard that things were not altogether. ldle gossip, obviously.
If the gossip columns link your name with a man's now. don't you see that it's going to make you light, cheap?
He didn't come to discuss gossip. He came to discuss the case.
Are there only gossip mongers and sentimental wifes around here? But everbody knows it.
In front of Donadieu, the school's worst gossip?
But I won't subject myself to all that publicity. Like a gossip holiday for my friends.
You forgot she's writing a gossip column, and you told her something about me.
That was Damery, you know, the gossip columnist, the glassup columlist, the newspaper fellow.
The story spread through the town. and you can imagine the gossip.
Such evil gossip can only have been started by one person.. yourself.
I suppose that's why you married me, because you knew I was dull and gauche and inexperienced, and there'd never be any gossip about me. Gossip?
Everything3 peachy, just the usual trifles some rivalries, the odd gossip, you know.
Gossip!

News and current affairs

But there is another, darker side to this craving, which is the wish to see idols dragged through the mud in vicious gossip magazines, divorce courts, and so on.
They do not trade on fundamental information, but on the latest gossip and fads.
She loved gossip, but she could always forgive a sinner.
Indeed, the economy is vastly inferior to Hollywood as a source of glitterati gossip, but much economic reporting makes the coverage of the birth of Brad Pitt's and Angelina Jolie's baby look profoundly serious.
But will the 2010 World Cup bring African women more than just fodder for gossip?
In fact, Davos is less a barometer that helps us to understand the deep trends that are shaping the world than a mirror that reflects trendy ideas, worries, and perhaps gossip.
It seems a high price to pay for gossip.
Entertaining gossip has mutated into an assault on privacy, with newspapers claiming that any attempt to keep them out of people's bedrooms is an assault on free speech.
Vladimir and Lyudmila have rarely been seen together over the past decade, so there was plenty of gossip in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
What started off as entertaining gossip about royalty and film stars has burgeoned into a massive assault on privacy, with newspapers claiming that any attempt to keep them out of the bedroom is an assault on free speech.

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