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noun

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Noun
There’s also a frank talk with her 100-year-old former publicity man, Rusty Strait, who later wrote a tell-all book about Jayne (Hargitay scolds him for sharing private stories), and a very poignant interview with Ellen Hargitay, her stepmother who married Mickey short after Jayne’s death. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 May 2025 In June 2015, Madison released a tell-all memoir titled Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. Jordana Comiter, People.com, 6 May 2025 So was Michael Gross, whose new tell-all will be about St. Barts and the stars and billionaires who frequent its beaches. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025 The tension between the estranged spouses was palpable during the tell-all. Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • Its reign is now over, thanks to the arrival of a neighbor that’s even more intimate and determinedly low-profile.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 13 June 2025
  • The operation, which would have required extensive planning and an intimate knowledge of the archive’s location and security, pushed the first Trump administration to withdraw from the original nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
    Leila Gharagrozlou, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Hug says in his chronicles on the conflict that his peacekeeping contingent relied on satellite cameras to track an ever-changing labyrinth of dangers produced by the smoldering war.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • But this epic chronicle about a family’s struggle to remain together and preserve its dignity in the face of more powerful forces neither judges nor lays blame.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Playwrights addressed the polis not by dramatizing current events but by recasting tales from the mythological and historic past to sharpen critical thinking on contemporary concerns.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • So much of this book is about this complicated and rather dangerous nostalgia for a past and a community that’s gone forever.
    Dwyer Murphy June 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • There have been informal talks between the clubs, but Newcastle, who are keen to avoid paying inflated fees, have alternative options.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • Poor areas with informal housing were the worst affected, government officials said.
    Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • And despite her long and varied career, June (like her father) never penned an autobiography.
    Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • A little over a year after the release of Stone’s autobiography, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), a documentary, 2025’s Sly Lives!
    Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • The Panthers were down 1-0 early when Draisaitl scored on a rebound just 66 seconds into regulation — the seventh-fastest goal to begin a Stanley Cup Final in NHL history.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
  • The play is nominated for five Tony Awards at this Sunday’s ceremony, including Clooney for Best Actor, and has broken weekly box office records as the highest-grossing non-musical play in history.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Her bookcase displays her many publications: her psychobiography of the poet Robert Lowell, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and her books on suicide, on exuberance and on the connection between mania and artistic genius.
    Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 22 May 2023
  • First Freud’s patient in the 1920s, in 1930 Bullitt also became his collaborator, co-writing a dubious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson.
    Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022

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