talebearing

IPA: tˈæɫʌbˈɪrɪŋ

noun

  • The spreading of gossip or rumor.
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Examples of "talebearing" in Sentences

  • I strongly disapprove of talebearing of any sort, and wish to hear no more of this.
  • Very little open quarrelling ever took place amongst them; but backbiting and talebearing were universal.
  • He had a score to settle with Josiah Wilby, a boy whose talebearing had procured him his last, well-earned whacking.
  • Again, “among your people” suggests that the problem of talebearing goes beyond the individual hurt and affects everybody.
  • The ring of pupils around him, true to the child's creed of no talebearing, glanced at school books or lesson papers with preternaturally grave faces.
  • Informers abounded where talebearing met with countenance and reward; and the sword was readily unsheathed when its success was certain, and it carved out empire.
  • It put a premium on talebearing and resorted to most cruel means to convict those who earnestly denied that their beliefs were different from those of the Church.
  • Not everyone approved; but Philip was King, there was no getting past that; and no one loved either guardian well enough to risk the dangerous task of talebearing.
  • You know that I never favor talebearing, but, just as a matter of curiosity, is it the young man who passes the plate in church, or the one who sells ribbon in Marsh and Elkins's?
  • Though Rebecca had had the better of him, George was above the meanness of talebearing or revenge upon a lady — only he could not help cleverly confiding to Captain Crawley, next day, some notions of his regarding Miss Rebecca — that she was a sharp one, a dangerous one, a desperate flirt, &c.; in all of which opinions Crawley agreed laughingly, and with every one of which

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