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Example sentences for: gossip

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Given the material, it's not surprising that Jane Austen should now be seen as literature's beloved old maid: modest, retiring, more comfortable darning socks by the fire than out in the big bad world, something of a gossip but basically sweet.
It's his foolish marriage and adulterous affair, as exploited by an evil gossip columnist who goes on to become a United States senator.
The piece points out that gossip columnists are generally far more seasoned than the 27-year-old Stern: "Stern's success in the gossip world is seen by many not only as an indictment of his moral character--surely it should take years for a person to become this shallow?
Then, suddenly, news--or, more correctly, gossip items concerning Kathleen Willey's Oval Office gropes--began to appear, and I saw that the Sex Beat Columbo was on the job again.
Or is gossip only sanctioned when the topic is of a private, personal nature?