tell-all
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.49 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Telling all; revealing everything, particularly details or information that are normally withheld.
noun
A publication, usually a book or magazine article, which tells all, revealing every detail, particularly information that is normally withheld.
Example Sentences
- "The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death."
- "Open source is a tell-all software development strategy."
- "Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue."
- "More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]"
- "The Princess of Canada is a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim”, while her husband, the prince, has written a tell-all book about his family and the media called “Waaagh!”."
- "At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation."