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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. rumor, rumour, hearsayverb

    gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

    Synonyms:
    hearsay, rumor

  2. rumor, rumour, bruitverb

    tell or spread rumors

    "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"

    Synonyms:
    bruit, rumor

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "rumour":

    rumor, hearsay, reputation, gossip

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#5708reputation
#9152gossip
#15520rumor
#27221rumour
#36418hearsay
#122179bruit

How to use rumour in a sentence?

  1. Yair Lapid:

    Like thieves in the night, the coalition just passed a disgraceful and corrupt personalized law in response to a baseless rumour about recusal. Every citizen of Israel should know – days before Passover, while cost of living is soaring, Netanyahu is once more looking out only for himself.

  2. Mukaibar Shah:

    Corona virus rumour was created by Government, spread by media by constant telling lies to instill fear in people, accepted by fools who still wear masks and it was benefited by doctors, pharmacy companies, big politicians and businessmen

  3. Markus Huber:

    QE (speculation) has been around for so long that I think it will be a 'buy the rumour and sell the announcement'.

  4. J. R. R. Tolkien:

    There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  5. Xie Feng:

    Do not be intimidated or misled, exploited by those with ulterior motives and in particular, do not be a rumour monger yourself, or join the anti-China forces in stigmatizing or demonizing the legislation.


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