I strongly disapprove of talebearing of any sort, and wish to hear no more of this. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Very little open quarrelling ever took place amongst them; but backbiting and talebearing were universal. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Again, “among your people” suggests that the problem of talebearing goes beyond the individual hurt and affects everybody. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
The ring of pupils around him, true to the child's creed of no talebearing, glanced at school books or lesson papers with preternaturally grave faces. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Informers abounded where talebearing met with countenance and reward; and the sword was readily unsheathed when its success was certain, and it carved out empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Not everyone approved; but Philip was King, there was no getting past that; and no one loved either guardian well enough to risk the dangerous task of talebearing. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
It excludes all suspicion of partiality, of personal malignity, of secret shying and talebearing. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
What I should fear in friendship is the comment, and interference, and talebearing, I often see connected with it. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852] Reference
He had a score to settle with Josiah Wilby, a boy whose talebearing had procured him his last, well-earned whacking. From Wordnik.com. [The Admirable Tinker Child of the World] Reference
The king did his best by intrigue, by calumny, by talebearing, by inventions, to set the Huguenots against each other, and to excite the mutual jealousy of all his most trusted adherents, whether Protestant or. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Though Rebecca had had the better of him, George was above the meanness of talebearing or revenge upon a lady -- only he could not help cleverly confiding to Captain Crawley, next day, some notions of his regarding. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
In Ps. 15: 3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25: 23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1: 30 and 2 Cor. 12: 20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
"Nay, but Gervas since told me that he had met some of my Lord's men who told him that your daughter was one of the Queen of Scots 'ladies, and said he,' I held my peace; but methought, It hath come of the talebearing of that fellow to whom my wife prated. '". From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
They're powerful fond o 'talebearing that Maxy lot. ". From Wordnik.com. [That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877] Reference
The talebearing counted for little, but went to make Hermione’s conviction like adamant. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
You ought to be above the base talebearing of a time-serving woman; but you are above nothing now.’. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
"Ill hast thou repaid me," said Valgard, "for giving up to thee my priesthood, when thou hast handled it so little like a man, and now my wish is that thou shouldst pay them off by something that will drag them all down to death; and this thou canst do by setting them by the ears by talebearing, so that Njal's sons may slay Hauskuld; but there are many who will have the blood-feud after him, and so Njal's sons will be slain in that quarrel.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
"Who knows how they might play on his honour as to talebearing?. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
talebearing banned in, 213. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
talebearing, 213–15. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
Tatling, talebearing, fland'ring, lying words. From Wordnik.com. [The Process and Empire of Christ: From His Birth to the End of the Mediatorial Kingdom; a Poem ...] Reference
Scripture forbidden and reproved under several names and notions: of bearing false witness, false accusation, railing censure, sycophantry, talebearing, whispering, backbiting, supplanting, taking up reproach: which terms some of them do signify the nature, others denote the special kinds, others imply the manners, others suggest the ends of this practice. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
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