Thesaurus results for TALE-TELLER

tale-teller

noun

ˈtāl-ˌte-lər

Definition of 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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Celebrity gossiper Rob Shuter reported that the two recently let go of a number of their staff.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Sep. 2025
Her staff figured out how to get rid of the gossiper.

— Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025

Definition of gossiper

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The collection also builds on the fantasy of Barrow’s Green, the fictional English village dreamed up by Gelman that includes its own imaginary landmarks and distinct locals (including a town gossip and poignant editor).

— Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 12 Nov. 2026
There isn’t just catastrophizing happening amid the elves, the humans, and the dwarves — now there’s gossip!

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of gossip

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The foremost additional suspect in this new batch of reporting is Joey Ippolito, a friend of Simpson’s and a drug trafficker turned federal informant who, as Guzze told me in 2021, was connected to New Jersey’s Italian Mafia.

— Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 12 Nov. 2026
The city also paid more than $80,000 to have PERF conduct an independent review and analysis of the department’s confidential informant policies and procedures.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of informant

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