as in gossip
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
the exact nature of the relationship between the two coworkers was a topic that kept the office gossipers too busy to do any work
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Recent Examples of gossiper
Celebrity gossiper Rob Shuter reported that the two recently let go of a number of their staff.
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Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Sep. 2025
Her staff figured out how to get rid of the gossiper.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025
Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Sep. 2025
Her staff figured out how to get rid of the gossiper.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025
Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gossiper
Noun
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During Season 1, Santos — who, like Briones, is half-Filipino — surprised nurses Princess (Kristin Villanueva) and Perlah (Amielynn Abellera) by chiming in on their gossip session in Tagalog.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Then came last year’s The Most Dear and The Future, a slender collection of tracks that straddled a line between pop, ambient, folk, and dance with an air of rustic mysticism that seemed to travel through music circles like gossip bursting from localized containment.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
2 June 2026
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The indictment alleges that the group, which is best known for its work to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, lied to donors about paying confidential informants to infiltrate hate groups and deceived banks about the bank accounts used to make those payments.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
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Maybe every second man in those crazy groups was an informant.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
Noun
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One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.—
Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
19 May 2026
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Gossiper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossiper. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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