TALETELLING Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

tale-telling

adjective

as in gossipy

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Eve’s Hollywood, gossipy and full of anecdote captures a more recent version of the conversations Arzner used to overhear at her father’s Hollywood restaurant.

— Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
There’s the pleasant background noise of gossipy girls’ dinners and third dates.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 2 July 2026

Definition of gossipy

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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

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As a neo-New Wave guy with a heartland jones and drama-king chops, Flowers isn’t bad cosplaying his heroes, even if his brawny rock-opera vocal approach is a bit short on the conversational warmth that makes for truly memorable country singing.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026
The Guatemalan epidemic has been traced back to a gathering in Santiago Atitlán in December 2025 that was organized by a Christian megachurch whose leaders have been vocal about their anti-vaccine views.

— Kathryn H. Jacobsen, The Conversation, 21 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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