spread rumours BrE
spread rumors AmE

"Anyone who could be on this level should know better than to spread rumors."

As if that wasn't bad enough, he spread rumors about her.

In part the effort to raise troops provided an opportunity to spread rumors about himself.

The video began to spread rumors of the two celebrities being in a very serious relationship.

"But people are spreading bad rumors about him and I think his health has suffered."

She had been spreading rumors about this and other things the band was doing.

We can live with him spreading rumors for a day or two.

Or maybe they managed to get back and spread rumors.

Not my specialty, but I know a thing or two about how people spread rumors in the financial world, just to stir things up.

They can spread rumors and see to it that we are smeared in the press.