malicious gossip
malicious rumour BrE
malicious rumor AmE

"How do you know that this is not simply malicious gossip?"

But he called the other charges against him "malicious gossip."

He'd never heard it called into question, even by Washington's most malicious gossips.

She would be the target of all the malicious gossip, not Carl.

First of all, tell me a little more about the circumstances which gave rise to this malicious gossip.

"Great families are often the subject of malicious gossip."

He was described as an erratic character, and a malicious gossip.

There are malicious gossips everywhere, and certain people who will always think the worst.

They had to resort to that sure, never failing remedy - malicious gossip.

That reality frightened her as much as any malicious gossip.

That be most malicious gossip I not to be trusted at all and in the least!

The place she as part of an exclusive social milieu is threatened by malicious gossip.

This account has been doubted by many scholars, who consider it "malicious gossip".

I believe the story was simply malicious gossip started by people who were offended by the marriage.

"There has been a huge amount of malicious gossip.

The story was initially criticized for being "malicious gossip".

Her only fear was that he might seek to spread malicious gossip about the earl out of spite.

Others dismiss the book for its dearth of sources and persistent focus on malicious gossip.

However, a girl who missed out on the role of Romeo saw them, and she begins to spread malicious gossip about the pair.

I could laugh off the malicious gossip, the snubs, the icy glares.

The programs are full of malicious gossip.

Could be true, or it could be malicious gossip.

To stir up trouble or drama, usually by "planting" malicious gossips and rumors.

It was a monstrous, a scandalous thing that the police should take such idle, malicious gossip seriously.

He said he was told that sometimes the need to protect individuals can outweigh the prohibition on malicious gossip.

At age 27, Gerard became the subject of a malicious rumor.

You will be an example to all those who have been spreading malicious rumours about me.

"And who has been putting about these malicious rumours?"

For security reasons, however, Miles is unable to defend himself against the ensuing malicious rumors.

But this may merely have been malicious rumour and we never received any confirmation as to its truth.

Why are you spreading malicious rumors about her?

There will be no lying, malicious rumors, either.

They should have known it was a most malicious rumor and have shrugged it off.

Generating malicious rumors is not exactly new.

There is no truth whatsoever to the malicious rumours.'

The girls begin making up malicious rumors about Bebe and accuse her of being sexually promiscuous.

She insists the malicious rumor that she had been the children's governess has absolutely no basis in fact.

He can't do a decent job of picking up the pieces if he's surrounded by doubt and malicious rumor."

The mystery about the identity of this "special security prisoner" sometimes led to malicious rumours among his fellow inmates.

Sample crisis include product tampering, kidnapping, malicious rumors,terrorism, and espionage.

'And a warning to those who spread malicious rumours.

She delights in manipulating the lives of those beneath her, starting malicious rumors and relocating workers based on their family's reputation.

Gary decides to tell Tad that Jimmy has been spreading malicious rumors about his family.

The regent had warned against malicious rumors, and at this critical tune, such wild tales were a danger to the ship.

A malicious rumor was being circulated.

Some are malicious rumor.

A malicious rumor concerning her.

Spreading malicious rumors, while perhaps a bare-knuckle tactic, is certainly legal, and there is evidence that the Republicans engage in it.

Under other circumstances, it would have been laughable that a major periodical chose to run such a ridiculous story based on nothing more than malicious rumor.

Modern historians, however, consider this scenario at best an exaggeration, and quite possibly simply a malicious rumor spread by Potemkin's opponents.