dishier; dishiest
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: characterized by, full of, or given to gossip or disclosure
a dishy biography

Examples of dishy in a Sentence

twice a week he churns out a dishy column on the latest tidings from Tinseltown
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While Tendler’s confessional writing style is reminiscent of a long email from a friend or dishy voice note, her memoir is anything but a gossipy tell-all. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024 Here, Warren gets to the meat of her story and to the kind of dishy details required of any proper (and marketable) political memoir. Michael Tomasky, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014 McPherson has an appealingly frank and dishy manner. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 All That Glitters, his accounting of Inigo Philbrick’s bad art friendship and even worse art fraud, is dishy and vulnerable and propulsive. Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 22 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for dishy 

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of dishy was in 1961

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“Dishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dishy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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