as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
this book on the people who have occupied the White House is a little too gossipy to qualify as serious history
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There’s plenty of drama to go around — especially once gossipy talk show hosts, cruel vloggers and even campy drag queens join in on the action to tear its titular drama queens to shreds.
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Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
This gossipy, epistolary novel is as full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling: naughty Médicis, wine-drunk nuns, proto-Marxist painter’s assistants.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
This includes a lawyer, who will reply to social messages and even gossipy chitchat from their work account.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Duvall, who won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, improvised much of her gossipy dialogue.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
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Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
This gossipy, epistolary novel is as full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling: naughty Médicis, wine-drunk nuns, proto-Marxist painter’s assistants.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
This includes a lawyer, who will reply to social messages and even gossipy chitchat from their work account.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Duvall, who won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, improvised much of her gossipy dialogue.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gossipy
colloquial
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Proposition 12 is the colloquial term for the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.—
Alan Wooten,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
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The strawberry moon is the colloquial name for June's full moon, a term originating from Native American tribes who marked the time when wild strawberries reached peak ripeness.—
Kate Nalepinski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
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“Gossipy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossipy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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