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
Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Sep. 2025
Her staff figured out how to get rid of the gossiper.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gossiper
Noun
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Will Tudor as Sillerton Jackson, Friend of Newland who is lofty and a gossip with secrets of his own.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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However, sometimes, the right play happens for the correlating gossip.—
Charlotte Wilder,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Police learned in September that Garnett was selling meth and made several purchases of meth from Garnett using confidential informants, according to a probable cause affidavit.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Oct. 2025
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Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the company’s cameras and accompanying Neighbors app have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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“Gossiper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossiper. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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