tale-telling

adjective

as in gossipy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tale-telling
  1. gossipy
  2. articulate
  3. voluble
  4. vocal
  5. glib
Adjective
  • Us Weekly, which used to be a quasi-People magazine and very friendly, turned into something totally different and gossipy.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • But the gossipy tidbits almost pale next to the eye-opening shadiness of some of the business strategies.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of gossipy
Adjective
  • With verbal chops like those, who needs an articulate press secretary?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Tyson is at once scary, funny, personable, distasteful, introspective, superficial, articulate and incoherent.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of articulate
Adjective
  • Pan-African socialist Richard Moore, tall and voluble, gets suitably fired up when radicalism, politics and racial pride are the subjects.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • At least Mourinho could reflect on a happy outcome for Real Madrid, even if their 2-1 victory against Inter was far from convincing and accompanied by voluble disapproval from the home crowd, much of it aimed at Vinicius Junior.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of voluble
Adjective
  • And for a franchise built on passionate online debate from a vocal fandom, apathy is a death knell.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The song earned a Grammy nomination for best male R&B vocal performance and two MTV Video Music Awards nods.
    — Russ Penuell, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of vocal
Adjective
  • Comment sections were filled with glib condemnations of relatives who had behaved idiotically after exposure.
    — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026
  • But there’s no icy chill to his vision, only the glib confidence that a feel-good montage or a piercing Anohni and the Johnsons ballad will blind us to his film’s lack of human connection.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of glib
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“Tale-telling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tale-telling. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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