as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
this book on the people who have occupied the White House is a little too gossipy to qualify as serious history
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Recent Examples of gossipy
Duvall, who won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, improvised much of her gossipy dialogue.
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
But the debates over the more gossipy anecdotes obscure the larger trends that surface through the book.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
Tom Hollander stars as Truman Capote, who manages to scandalize the entire Manhattan social scene by writing a viciously gossipy novel about them.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
The four movies do not feel like traditional Oscar favorites, though A Complete Unknown (a music biopic about Bob Dylan) and Conclave (a gossipy drama about the selection of a new pope) come closest.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025
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colloquial
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
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Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.—
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“Gossipy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossipy. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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