Gossiping

I may believe that gossiping is immoral, love gossip, gossip constantly, elicit and encourage gossip, all without failing to believe that gossip is wrong. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The chasseurs-à-pied were lounging along the roadside and standing in gossiping groups about the motor. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The New England capital he had further described as a gossiping country town with a tone of criticism so narrow and vulgar as scarcely to hide the parochial sort of venom which engendered it. ❋ Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1876)

It is clearly utterly wrong - let's say crass - for coppers to be pre-empting due process by briefing the press aka gossiping about whether this man was or was not a terrorist. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And I canna think Mrs. Bug has lived sae long without being called a gossiping busybody before. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

The girls were expected to be ready promptly at six-fifteen, but dressing hour might more properly have been termed gossiping hour, since it was more often given over to general discussions, Stella's pretty room, or Peggy's and Polly's, proving as a rule a rendezvous. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It's called gossiping folks and it doesn't matter how many ways you want to couch in cutsy Web 2.0 or social media buzzwords that is exactly what citizen journalism is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 2008, 250,000 VA employees reported that a co-worker had engaged in exclusionary behaviors such as gossiping, withholding information, and bullying. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Research has also shown that when girls mask or deny anger, it emerges in others ways such as gossiping, excluding, insulting, and other forms of social manipulation (aka "relational aggression"). ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's not as if Edwards is still a senator, so she's not "gossiping" about a colleague. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What you are doing is little more than the nastiest kind of gossiping: pretending you know a deep, dark ugly secret and letting peoples imagination wonder how ugly it is. ❋ Unknown (2006)

a glorious privilege of our sex to detail news and scandal, and remark on people and things as we think proper, without the reproach of gossiping, which is a term exclusively feminine, and long may it continue so! ❋ Unknown (1825)

He promised to dine with me on the morrow, provided I would sit with him for an hour "gossiping," for he said that he could not sleep, he could not sit still, he could not read or write. ❋ Various (N/A)

Not for him to explain that practically all women and many men found themselves "gossiping" when he led them on adroitly, for reasons of his own. ❋ Anne Austin (N/A)

While she was still "gossiping," and Herman all attention, steps were heard without, and the door opened, and Reuben Gray entered, smiling and radiant, and leading two robust children -- a boy and a girl -- each with a little basket of early fruit in hand. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

After all, the much watched women of Wisteria Lane seem to be more interested in "feminine arts" such as gossiping and scheming than in holding down a corporate gig. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indirect or "social" aggression such as gossiping, deliberately excluding someone or turning others against them remains much more common among teen girls than physical violence, Pepler says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tyler's daughter attacks bandmates for 'gossiping' ❋ Unknown (2009)