Sometimes silence is a really a good answer.

Gossip, crowing or stretching the truth sometimes hurts someone and eventually comes back to bite us !
So why open your mouth unless you are going to speak life into someone?
I’ve had too many experiences in life where I said something that given more time to consider I wouldn’t have ever opened my mouth. And let me admit it honestly. I still remember my mother used to tell me if I didn’t have something nice to say that it’s best to say nothing at all.

I am practicing it day in & day out.