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Talebearer   Listen
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Talebearer  n.  One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. "Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Talebearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... very best way," said he, "to earn a trip down into Egypt. 'A talebearer revealeth secrets, but he that is of a faithful ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

... might give alms thereof, and having love and concord with each other. And there was really to be seen, as it were, a land by itself, of piety and justice; for there was none there who did wrong, or suffered wrong: no blame from any talebearer: but a multitude of men training themselves, and in all of them a mind set on virtue. So that any one seeing the cells, and such an array of monks, would have cried out, and said, "How fair are thy dwellings, O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel; like ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley

... shirking duty for the sake of a day's debauch in town. It roused his indignation, as he always hated anything that savored of sneaking or disloyalty. Still, it was not his affair and Pedro was safe as far as he was concerned. He would not act as talebearer. ...
— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield

... pair who do not walk sedately; how you may mount the stairway of a strange house—and encounter one who knows you at the top, and who laughs in his sleeve; how you may emerge from the house in which you have felt safe from espionage—only to encounter a familiar talebearer at ...
— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge



Words linked to "Talebearer" :   telltale, gossipmonger, rumormonger, gossiper, tattler, newsmonger



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