TALE-TELLING Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

tale-telling

adjective

as in gossipy

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Adjective

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

Many autistic individuals are highly intelligent, articulate, and academically successful.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Which is why the delivery of a frank but highly articulate speech about desire, especially to the very person one desires, proves unbearably intense.

— André Aciman, Literary Hub, 13 July 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

Several residents who spoke at the meetings characterized the opposition as a vocal minority of residents who have fixated on a few mostly parochial issues.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
Thirty pounds lighter, with a prosthetic eyelid, a higher vocal octave and months of mental preparation, Hunnam became Gein.

— Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2026

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