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Talebearing   Listen
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Talebearing  adj.  Telling tales officiously.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Talebearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... how they might play on his honour as to talebearing? Nay, good wife, when thou hast thought it over, thou wilt see that far fouler shoals and straits lie up yonder, than in the free open sea that God Almighty made. Martin is a devout and godly man, who hath matins and evensong on board each day when the weather is not too foul, and looks well that ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge

... flight. I am not prepared to say all that. I do not object to a little earthiness. What I should fear in friendship is the comment, and interference, and talebearing, I often see connected ...
— Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Volume XVII., No 423, New Series. February 7th, 1852 • Various



Words linked to "Talebearing" :   leaky, blabbermouthed, tattling, communicatory



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