TALE-TELLING Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

tale-telling

adjective

as in gossipy

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There’s the pleasant background noise of gossipy girls’ dinners and third dates.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 2 July 2026
Others look too personal, too theatrical, too decorative, too campy, too gossipy, too visibly marked by feeling.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026

Definition of gossipy

Adjective

Very opinionated and articulate, and seems more interested in the idea behind the idea, rather than the actual idea itself.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Published in late 2018—the very moment the Andy Rubin scandal broke and sparked the Google Walkout—this book gave us language for something many of us had sensed but couldn’t yet articulate.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of articulate

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What a movie star needs (among other qualities) is anger, and Sessa plays Tony as an eager, voluble, simmering bad boy who is playing out his inner turmoil in the real world.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 July 2026
In 1995 James Carville, the voluble Bill Clinton adviser, was in the stands watching a Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park when he was summoned to Gate D for a call.

— Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2026

Definition of voluble

Adjective

Brown chronicled her experience with cancer in several articles for PEOPLE and became a vocal advocate for fellow cancer patients.

— Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
People who ride bikes are a small but very vocal minority who seem to have city government wrapped around their fingers.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of vocal

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With a few wonderful exceptions that proved the rule (The Good Place, New Girl), the network sitcom landscape of the 2010s was a graveyard of glib titles, gimmicky premises, and mercifully short runs.

— Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
Cardin is careful not to let the mindset framing curdle into something glib.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of glib

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