Sentences with phrase «by idle gossip»
Old - fashioned and melodramatic it may be, but playwright Lillian Hellman's tale of decent lives destroyed by idle gossip still hits hard.
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Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.