as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
the reasons for the couple's divorce aren't terribly juicy, but they will be by the time the tale-tellers are through
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Recent Examples of tale-teller
And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them.
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Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tale-teller
Noun
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In these spaces, socializing is a key element of the bathing experience: spaces for family and friends to gather, gossip, catch up, to cleanse the body and the mind.—
Sylvie Florman,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2025
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People were polite on the surface, but beneath that facade there was a pervasive undercurrent of gossip, backstabbing and insincerity.—
Margaret Graziano,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The actual murder sounds much more like a spontaneous crime of passion than the work of a veteran hitman exacting punishment on a guy suspected of being an FBI informant.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
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Gledhill allegedly told the informant he was buried somewhere north of their Cottonwood Heights home, per the detention hearing.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.—
Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Tale-teller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tale-teller. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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