tale-teller

as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others the reasons for the couple's divorce aren't terribly juicy, but they will be by the time the tale-tellers are through

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Recent Examples of tale-teller And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them. Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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Noun
  • More gossip was unleashed when Albert was photographed with his son Alexandre Grimaldi, daughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and Nicole Coste, Alexandre’s mother, in 2023.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • Besides the usual weather report and family gossip, Fanny’s father was consistently supportive of her writing, urging her not to rush through life too quickly, offering gentle advice in tough times without pretending to know it all, full of that Howe family wit and humor.
    Ezra Fox July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The defendants suggested one of the informants is either someone in current House Speaker Cameron Sexton's office – or is the speaker himself.
    Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Encouragingly, this discernment may translate to digital informants like computers too.
    Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025
  • Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments.
    Joshua Rovner, The Conversation, 2 July 2025

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“Tale-teller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tale-teller. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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