Word Meanings - RUMORER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. Shak.
Related words: (words related to RUMORER)
- FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - TELLER
1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - FALSE
Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing, - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - FALSE-HEARTED
Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet. - FALSEHOOD
1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction - FALSER
A deceiver. Spenser. - FALSELY
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9. - FALSE-HEART
False-hearted. Shak. - TELLERSHIP
The office or employment of a teller. - STELLERID
A starfish. - FORETELLER
One who predicts. Boyle. - STORY-TELLER
1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar." - STELLERIDA
An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans. - TALETELLER
One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler. - STELLER
The rytina; -- called also stellerine. - STELLERIDAN; STELLERIDEAN
A starfish, or brittle star. - TRUTH-TELLER
One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.