talebearing
taletelling

Her talebearing was an arrow aimed at another target.

No place or man in Britain has been subjected to such inspired talebearing as Camelot and King Arthur, the dream city and the dream ruler.

Sixthly, he was rather eager to involve Leacock and did a bit of caddish talebearing to that end, even informing you that he saw the captain on the spot at the fatal moment.

He had stolen several times, but the gains had not been sufficient to offset his dread of being locked up; he had sufficient ingenuity to escape on the field itself all the police in the world, but nothing could protect him against the talebearing of his enemies.

For those not getting enough Islam at the lectures, the central office stocked a host of pamphlets and other reading material with names like "The Essentials of Belief," "Apostasy From Islam: The Most Abhorrent Sin" and "Gossip and Talebearing."

Sometimes she hugged her knowledge to herself--at other times she would go round from one person to another, whispering, and standing back delightedly to observe the results of her taletelling.

Perhaps, though, because a peculiarly Irish kind of vernacular poetry and sly taletelling are part of his heritage, and as such are taken pretty much for granted, he does not give potential readers a sense of just how laugh-out-loud funny a good deal of Mr. McCourt's memoir is.

Despite the apparent blatancy of the symbolism at work in this piece (since 1949, the Bank of China has been Beijing's most prominent granite presence in this British colony), Mr. Ho emphasizes the oral taletelling of the work that is imbedded in Hong Kong life.