Before quitting the lighter andgossipy items to be found in these letters, let us say a word or two about the rich Court costumes of the period.
Though its tone was studiously gossipy and cheerful, the tidings it contained were unpleasant enough to lend significance to the American's dictum.
Still it was not with any prying, gossipy interest, that she observed closely, in order to discover if there were good reasons for her surmise.
They will attract a large circle of readers here, who will find in their gossipy pages an almost inexhaustible fund of instruction and amusement.
These are a few among many illustrations of the pleasant, gossipy information conveyed in these Memoirs, whose great charm is the free and straightforward manner in which the writer chronicles his impressions of men and events.
His cookery-book is a gossipy little work, written, as only such a scholar could write it, in a style which at once invests the subject with dignity and interest.
Two insipid, vague, and gossipy fragments concerning Don Marabotto strive to make up for his absence from the list of the seven recipients of synchronizing intimations.
It might complicate matters if your connection with me got to be talked of in thisgossipy place.
If you had really been the man of the means you've been credited with in this gossipy little hole you'd have gone to my nephew Montague Maynard and asked him for his daughter three days ago, eh?
And the town's too small for me to hide in--it was always a gossipy hole.
Nan should marry him; if she liked they would remove to Indianapolis to escape gossipy tongues; but he had definitely determined that the marriage should not be delayed.
Then he had been able to smile whimsically at those gossipy tales.
But a man cannot fight gossipy old ladies or jealous, petty-minded nurses, or a doctor whom he has never met and whose transgressions he cannot swear to.
The Church History is not a scholarly work, notwithstanding its author's undoubted learning, but is a lively and gossipyaccount which has at least one virtue, that it entertains the reader.
A single play, Hyde Park, with its frivolous, realistic dialogue, is sometimes read for its reflection of the fashionable gossipy talk of the day.
Thus adjured and threatened, the gossipy footman made a clean breast of it.
The footman turned out to be a pleasant, gossipy man, and soon won the hearts of old Mrs Willis and her young guardian.
It leaked out, as everything did in that gossipy town, and among that gossipy Jewish congregation.
And it was in consequence of his own gossipy letter that the steward was disagreeably surprised by the prince's sudden appearance.
Egon turned with her, and as they sauntered back resumed his light, gossipy chatter.
It is the age of the diarists, conspicuous amongst whom were Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, whose gossipy daily journals bring us so intimately in touch with the political and social life of the times.
Nothin' but a oldgossipy fool; but I reckon you don't hev to count them bills over before you leave 'em with me.
Now I am writing in my bedroom, close to a gossipy little fire, which is a delightful companion, although August has still a day to run.
A gossipy Devonshire cat came out and begged for caresses, mewing the news of the night--such a chatty creature!
The writer may speak of many trivial things at and about home, and gossipy matters in the neighborhood, and should keep the absent one posted upon all minor facts and occurrences, as well as the more important ones.
In short, a family letter may be as gossipy as the writer can make it, without much regard to an attempt at showy or dignified composition.
But her real acquiring of merit was in calling upon that Mrs. Bogart whose gossipy good opinion was so valuable to a doctor.
Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
Besides, in a small, crowded and gossipy place, it would be downright madness to attempt it.
For your own sake try and keep up appearances a little longer; at any rate until we are out of this infernal back-biting, gossipy little hole.
I wonder why men are such slaves to those gossipy things.
No more crocheting or fancy work--no novel reading--no gossipy letter writing.
Nor are silent and monosyllabic persons responsible for them; gossipyindividuals seek, by the use of them, to exhibit a certain power of speech.
She was hungry for a sight of well-remembered faces; she longed to hear the soft laughter and gay repartee of old friends; she was eager for gossipy first-hand news of her old world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gossipy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
