(n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
(n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
(n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
(v. t.) To stand sponsor to.
(v. i.) To make merry.
(v. i.) To prate; to chat; to talk much.
(v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(3) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(4) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(5) That's the kind of insider gossip you get when you're a media player like me.
(6) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(7) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
(8) He likes the policy bit of politics rather more than the showbusiness, and there is no fodder for gossip in his personal life.
(9) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
(10) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
(11) It wasn't just women who gossiped in the queues for water: it was a community event.
(12) As a result of the disastrous supreme court Citizens United decision,” Sanders said, “billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates.” He also appealed for a campaigns without “gossip”, saying: “I’ve never run a negative ad in my life … I believe that in a democracy what elections are about are serious debates over serious issues.” “This is not the Red Sox versus the Yankees.” Progressive activists welcomed his entry into the race but continued to urge Warren, who is seen as a more polished performer, to compete against Clinton as well.
(13) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.
(14) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
(15) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(16) But with no arrests and no obvious external suspects, the girls' family have found themselves the subject of local gossip, newspaper speculation and background briefings intended to place them firmly in the frame.
(17) Matters of the utmost importance – such as inequality, poverty, exploitation, corporate crime and the destruction of the natural world – are neglected or marginalised, while trivial political gossip is elevated to the status of major news.
(18) According to reports , the Goody wedding issue of Richard Desmond's celebrity gossip magazine sold 1.8 million copies, more than three times its average circulation of 508,504 in the second half of 2008.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) He gossips about former colleagues and even offers theories about how to solve the developing international crisis in the Crimea – ban Russia from the Olympics, maybe.
Telltale
Definition:
(a.) Telling tales; babbling.
(n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
(n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.
(n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
(n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
(n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
(n.) The tattler. See Tattler.
Example Sentences:
(1) NPR reported that investigators have not found telltale signs associated with Islamist radicalization , such as a change in mosques or abrupt shifts in behavior or family associations.
(2) The goal of aesthetic surgery is to avoid the telltale signs of surgery and to help the patient attain a youthful and energetic appearance for his or her age bracket.
(3) But a staff member wearing the telltale red ID pass but dressed in a shirt and tie rather than high-vis waistcoat – he would only say his role was "management" – took a different view.
(4) Water bottles, sweet wrappers, sanitary towels and footprints are telltale signs, as is a bivouac made from bushes to shelter the migrants from the heat of the day so they can continue their journey at night.
(5) When a repair technician arrived he couldn’t believe his eyes: knee-deep at the bottom of the shaft were hundreds of envelopes, the vessels for bribes to doctors who then dispensed with the telltale fakelakia .
(6) The method, established by Henry Ford Behavioral Health Services in 2001, is based on a clear principle: prevention, or the simple idea that suicide can be prevented if telltale signs leading up to it – including depression – are screened for in a mass, cohesive and coordinated fashion.
(7) Surgery for gynecomastia is primarily aimed at the complete removal of the breast tissue and the reconstruction of the normal breast and chest contour while leaving minimal telltale signs of the surgery.
(8) In a telltale sign that May was marking out territory for a possible future leadership bid, she defined what she called "the three pillars of Conservatism" – security, freedom and opportunity.
(9) A group of songbirds may have avoided a devastating storm by fleeing their US breeding grounds after detecting telltale infrasound waves.
(10) Gale Crater was chosen because its landscape shows the telltale signs of an ancient ocean.
(11) This is a town where the men have the telltale signs of the seriously rich.
(12) To find ways of sharing their enthusiasm and gifts with our communities, above all in works of mercy and concern for others?” Mother of disabled child kissed by pope applauds Francis's 'love for everybody' Read more At the barricades, the ebullient crowd mingled with police, national guardsmen in fatigues, and wary agents from the secret service and FBI, in suits save for telltale holsters, badges and microphones.
(13) The telltale signs could be as innocuous-seeming as “a bit of a headache or just feeling a little bit unwell”.
(14) The first telltale sign is when you start to feel first disconcerted and then just faintly exhausted by arguments about the correct response to bog-standard but still irritating incidents of everyday sexism.
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(16) The subjective restlessness of akathisia is usually accompanied by telltale foot movements: rocking from foot to foot while standing or walking on the spot.
(17) She points to evidence that such a switch may be near: The top of any market always has telltale signs.
(18) Lesions of the aorta also affect the surrounding structures, providing telltale signs of the overall situation.
(19) The living room of Vicky Holliday and her partner Keith Newell’s home, in a quiet cul-de-sac in High Wycombe, has all the telltale signs of new parenthood: multicoloured baby mat, cuddly toys, photos of the proud parents with their newborn baby.
(20) Schoolchildren could get involved to record how telltale words such as bath are pronounced in their area, Ranft says.