Telling
['telɪŋ] or ['tɛlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tell
(a.) Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Effective.
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Effective, powerful, pointed
ANT:Weak, ineffective, pointless
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Examples
- Tom, love, I am telling Mr. Harthouse that he never saw you abroad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It would have been almost as good as telling him that she was the thief. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was this moment telling Jane, I thought you would begin to be impatient for tidings of us. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She answered Sergeant Cuff's inquiry for the landlord, by telling him sharply that her master was up-stairs, and was not to be bothered by anybody. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Thank you, Dobbin, he said, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles, I was just--just telling her I would. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I don't think, Mr. Hale, you have done quite right in introducing such a person to us without telling us what he had been. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But I am telling it for our priest here. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The poor lady was incapable of telling me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A fault which is most serious, I said; the fault of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad lie. Plato. The Republic.
- A boss was telling a governor how to extend his power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The word demagogue has been frightfully maltreated in late years, but surely here is its real meaning--to flatter the people by telling them that their failures are somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I do frequently; when the gestures or looks of a pair seem telling a tale: it amuses me to watch them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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