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- noun Plural form of
gossip . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gossip .
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Examples
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Instant messaging, favored by chatting teens and office gossips, is a growing tool for therapists counseling people on everything from smoking cessation to sexual-abuse trauma, reports the Pioneer Press.
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Instant messaging, favored by chatting teens and office gossips, is a growing tool for therapists counseling people on everything from smoking cessation to sexual-abuse trauma, reports the Pioneer Press.
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Nor, again, are those who are concerned with the other pleasures that are not bodily; for those who are fond of hearing and telling stories and who spend their days on anything that turns up are called gossips, but not self-indulgent, nor are those who are pained at the loss of money or of friends.
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002
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They had few close friends and were not known as gossips.
The Long Night Dean Wesley Smith 2000
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They had few close friends and were not known as gossips.
The Long Night Dean Wesley Smith 2000
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Now men are not called perfectly self-mastering or wholly destitute of self-control in respect of pleasures of this class: nor in fact in respect of any which are not bodily; those for example who love to tell long stories, and are prosy, and spend their days about mere chance matters, we call gossips but not wholly destitute of self-control, nor again those who are pained at the loss of money or friends.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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The choicest food of the gossips is the personal peculiarities of their acquaintances.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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In all societies, there are men and women who are vaguely known as gossips; but they are seldom caught red-handed.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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Patsy's stiff face as he repelled the gossips was a sight to see.
Love of Brothers Katharine Tynan 1896
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Nor, again, are those who are concerned with the other pleasures that are not bodily; for those who are fond of hearing and telling stories and who spend their days on anything that turns up are called gossips, but not self-indulgent, nor are those who are pained at the loss of money or of friends.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865
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