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as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
twice a week he churns out a dishy column on the latest tidings from Tinseltown
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Recent Examples of dishy
Image Once More With Feeling By Elissa Sussman Deliciously dishy, this celeb romance could have been ripped from the pages of a 2006 tabloid (in a good way).
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Tia Williams, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
After a wave of celebrity memoirs last year made finding a gift for the bookish fans in your life easy, we’re left with a relative dearth of dishy autobiographical tomes in 2024 (with the exception of one by Cher, who always keeps the stans fed).
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
While Tendler’s confessional writing style is reminiscent of a long email from a friend or dishy voice note, her memoir is anything but a gossipy tell-all.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
McPherson has an appealingly frank and dishy manner.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
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Tia Williams, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
After a wave of celebrity memoirs last year made finding a gift for the bookish fans in your life easy, we’re left with a relative dearth of dishy autobiographical tomes in 2024 (with the exception of one by Cher, who always keeps the stans fed).
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
While Tendler’s confessional writing style is reminiscent of a long email from a friend or dishy voice note, her memoir is anything but a gossipy tell-all.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
McPherson has an appealingly frank and dishy manner.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dishy
Adjective
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So what follows is the colloquial Q&A, more or less unedited, from my email exchange with that reporter.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Trollope is a more colloquial writer.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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People magazine named him one of the sexiest men that year.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2025
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And, depending on each event’s everyday price, some of the $25 deals wind up being sexier than others.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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The participants are not just revealing this to strangers who make up the bulk of the show’s viewership, but also, by default, to potentially gossipy friends, neighbors, colleagues and professional acquaintances.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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LuPone is refreshingly gossipy in public in a way that’s largely died in our fearful-of-repercussions, fearful-of-retweets internet age.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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What's Going On?' This real estate, right next door to Paramount Studios, wasn’t always so desirable.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
13 June 2025
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The idea of multi-story homes with small footprints is a more desirable approach to density for some people than apartments.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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Conners shot 72-74 in the first two rounds and got off to a hot start on Saturday.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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During the first and third rounds, Spaun picked up ground against the field with a hot putter, gaining four shots on the greens on Thursday and 2.84 on Saturday.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
15 June 2025
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“Dishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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