What do we call someone who does not like to gossip?

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What is the one-word description of someone who avoids gossips(listening and spreading as well)?
Specifically, not a recluse, but a sincere and practical person who believes in realistic-facts and not dramatic, sensational but trivial stories.

Anton · Accepted Answer

There are several candidates. Here are four:

Reserved =
Reserved people do not often talk about or show their feelings or thoughts:
Cambridge

Reserved = restrained in words and actions
Merriam Webster

Reticent = unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings
Cambridge

Taciturn = tending not to speak much:
Cambridge

Restrained = acting in a calm and controlled way
Cambridge

Of these, I would normally use reserved because it seems to include the qualities of the other three. A reserved person may be taciturn, restrained, reticent, or any combination of the three.

user405662 · Answer

Perhaps you could call such a person Staid

Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.

[American Heritage Dictionary]
Another good choice would be Sobersides

A serious and sedate individual

But he was never a rapscallion ripstitch— Always a prim and proper little man, A butter-won’t-melt-in-my-mouth young sobersides, Since he found his own feet.
[Vocabulary.com]

bobcat · Answer

who believes in realistic-facts and not dramatic, sensational but trivial stories

grounded might fit here:
—used to describe a person who is sensible and has a good understanding of what is really important in life (Merriam-Webster)

What do we call someone who does not like to gossip?

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