How to Use dishy in a Sentence

dishy

adjective
  • And there are dishy, soapy dramas for the older ones to get sucked into.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
  • There’s something special about getting a dishy soap opera of your very own, no?
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • But DeVille has no dishy scoops to impart.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Most of the dishy stuff landed on the second day of the two-part discussion.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Most of the dishy stuff landed on the second day of the two-part discussion.
    — Christie D'zurilla, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The crown was claimed not by a hot new thriller or dishy celebrity memoir, but by a nearly two-year-old book.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
  • Kroll’s story was dishy, mean only to Meyers and his own baby, and fun.
    — Vulture, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The plot is dishy and delightful, filled with all sorts of bad behavior performed in couture.
    — Ryan Bradley, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
  • For many readers, the chapter was just a dishy run-down of high-society women, their secrets and lies.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The literary equivalent of a hot fudge sundae for me would be dishy books about Hollywood.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2022
  • The filmmaker’s dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The filmmaker’s dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The filmmaker’s dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, all the ingredients needed for a deliciously dishy feast.
    — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2022
  • What Happened does not, as many reviewers have observed, offer much in the way of dishy gossip or game-changing insight.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Her writing was self-conscious and dishy, unfussy about the beauty of the prose, sometimes downright uncareful.
    — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Plus, on a practical level, the style fits everything from your sunscreen to a beach towel, sunglasses, and a dishy summer read.
    — Aaron Royce, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • That much is clear in Glossy, a fascinating, revealing, and deliciously dishy new book about the rise of Glossier.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 6 Sep. 2023
  • If your mom doesn't start her day without tuning into The View, this dishy behind-the-scenes look will definitely be up her alley.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Here, Warren gets to the meat of her story and to the kind of dishy details required of any proper (and marketable) political memoir.
    — Michael Tomasky, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
  • Anyone expecting a dishy tome on the world of Latin American letters should set that expectation aside.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • While Tendler’s confessional writing style is reminiscent of a long email from a friend or dishy voice note, her memoir is anything but a gossipy tell-all.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The dishy book is a roman à clef; Weisberger briefly worked as Anna Wintour’s assistant at Vogue.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The dishy book is a roman à clef; Weisberger briefly worked as Anna Wintour’s assistant at Vogue.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, the hosts of a dishy podcast that deconstructs the bizarre genre of memoirs by the rich and famous, branch out with a stage show.
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Seriously, when did everyone forget that this franchise is based on a dishy roman à clef in which Wintour is, hello, referred to as the Devil?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
  • As a result, the dishy internal communications by Fox News talent and executives have been sprayed out by the press like candy from a piñata.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • All That Glitters, his accounting of Inigo Philbrick’s bad art friendship and even worse art fraud, is dishy and vulnerable and propulsive.
    — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 22 May 2024
  • The one that’s so dishy and so much of an international hit that even the late Queen Elizabeth herself reportedly watched it (old-school, of course, via projector).
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Expect dishy tidbits, thoughtful context and a healthy dose of palace intrigue about Los Angeles City Hall and the 2022 mayor’s race, which is starting to get interesting.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022

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