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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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But the debates over the more gossipy anecdotes obscure the larger trends that surface through the book.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
In public, President Trump is blunt, salty, mean, flattering and gossipy.
—Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 16 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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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
In public, President Trump is blunt, salty, mean, flattering and gossipy.
—Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 16 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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“Gossipy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossipy. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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