as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation this book on the people who have occupied the White House is a little too gossipy to qualify as serious history

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Recent Examples on the Web People in Flynn’s gossipy elite media and business circles soon begin to discover his true relationship to the book, which threatens both his hopes for lucre and his intellectual bona fides. Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024 Yet the film also wants to cue us to the gossipy and reductive way that this kind of thinking has too often been applied to her. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 July 2024 Years’ worth of emails, ranging from benign to gossipy to incredibly unflattering, were leaked, wreaking havoc on show business. Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 July 2024 In 1786, Abigail Adams received a very gossipy letter from her sister. Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for gossipy 

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“Gossipy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossipy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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