tell-all

noun

: a written account (such as a biography) that contains revealing and often scandalous information
tell-all adjective

Examples of tell-all in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In 2022, Jackson addressed the Super Bowl incident in a tell-all documentary of her own for the first time. Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024 Manigault-Newman served as a Trump aide but left his White House amid acrimony and wrote her own tell-all memoir. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024 With a dishy tell-all that has left her now twice humiliated? Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024 Tarek released his tell-all memoir, Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress—in Real Estate, Business, and Life, in February, which detailed his marital problems with Christina, including a harrowing 2016 incident involving a gun that led to their divorce. Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for tell-all 

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Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tell-all was in 1940

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“Tell-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tell-all. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.

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