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noun
Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
synonyms: dirt, scandal.
is a specific kind of: comment, gossip, scuttlebutt.
derivation: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock.
Dutch: geroddel, smeerlapperij
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