malicious gossip

1. 1.

   disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

   Synonymsscandaldirt

   Broadergossip

Questions about malicious gossip

What does malicious gossip mean?

malicious gossip means "disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people".

What is another word for malicious gossip?

Close synonyms include scandal, dirt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malicious gossip a common word?

malicious gossip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.