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Definition of Malicious gossip
1. Noun. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
Generic synonyms: Comment, Gossip, Scuttlebutt
Derivative terms: Scandalise, Scandalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malicious Gossip
Literary usage of Malicious gossip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien (1919)
"CHAPTER X The marriage of malicious gossip; matrimonial customs of the simple
... MOUTH of God and his wife, malicious gossip, soon became intimates of my ..."
2. The Enthusiasts of Port-Royal by Lilian Rea (1912)
"Some memoirists assert that she accepted money from Cinq Mars, but that is probably
only malicious gossip. Through her, Cinq Mars aspired to the office of ..."
3. The Rural Mind and Social Welfare by Ernest Rutherford Groves (1922)
"It is the school and the church that can contribute most in the stamping out of
malicious gossip. People must have something to think of beyond their own ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1884)
"If one in private life deals in the faults of his neighbors, and dilates on their
failures, we have sharp words of censure for this malicious gossip; ..."
5. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... of the first class: a poet entered in the competition as his own a play which
was in fact, or according to malicious gossip, composed by another. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"In spirit and style the work is wholly French,— a long succession of witty,
malicious gossip. The author addresses himself in the opening sentence to those ..."
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