1973, Taya Zinkin, Weeds grow fast‎, waiting to be in her presence to burst into the tears with which he delivered endless, and sometimes even untrue, talebearings
1979, Bernhard Häring, Free and Faithful in Christ: General moral theology‎, The damage done by calumny, detraction, and talebearing can frequently not be repaired.
2003, Avraham Steinberg, Encyclopedia of Jewish medical ethics, By talebearing, a person may actually violate seventeen negative Biblical precepts, fourteen positive precepts and incur three curses
