Synonyms for hearsay
ˈhɪərˌseɪhearsay

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1. hearsaynoun

   Synonyms:
   common talk, rumor, gossip, report

2. hearsaynoun

   information that was heard by one person about another

   Synonyms:
   rumor, gossip, report, common talk

3. hearsaynoun

   evidence based on the reports of others rather than on personal knowledge; normally inadmissible because not made under oath

   Synonyms:
   common talk, rumor, gossip, report

4. hearsaynoun

   evidence: an out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted; normally inadmissible because not subject to cross-examination, unless the hearsay statement falls under one of the many exceptions

   Synonyms:
   gossip, rumor, common talk, report

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hearsay

   Synonyms:
   report, rumor, gossip

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rumor, rumour, hearsayadjective

   gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

   Synonyms:
   rumour, rumor

   Antonyms:
   direct

2. hearsayadjective

   heard through another rather than directly

   "hearsay information"

   Antonyms:
   direct

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1. hearsaynoun

   Synonyms:
   rumor, report, fame, bruit, common talk, town talk

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1. hearsaynoun

   Synonyms:
   rumor, report, gossip, bruit, on dit

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1. List of paraphrases for "hearsay":

   rumor, rumour

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1. Mike Quigley:

   Aprimer on hearsay : I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay, because the courts have routinely allowed and created, needed exceptions to hearsay.

2. Mickey Mehta:

   Believe only in what you have known through your personal experience and not in what you have heard. Till you haven't experienced it, it cannot be your truth. Don't let your life with hearsay be trivialized; live and learn through knowing and get MickeyMized.

3. Andrew McCarthy:

   A prosecutor wouldn't make a decision on the basis of one hearsay line in a memo that has not been publicly available and that no one knows the context of.

4. Jonathan Meltz:

   What you heard in court is hearsay. You heard one side of events. As you know, there are three sides to every story.

5. Lindsey Graham:

   This seems to me like a political setup. It's all hearsay.