tattletale
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Danielle Spencer, the former child star who played sassy tattletale Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!,” has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
“You once said that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge just could not happen,” she harped like a little tattletale.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2023
You can avoid being branded a tattletale or flirt or a traitor.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2019
Our bosses love her and are thrilled she’s doing nonprofit work, so I’m afraid if I bring it up to them I’ll seem like a childish tattletale.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2016
“She used to go to school with our parents and Mr. Porter. I heard she was a tattletale back then. These days there aren’t many Remarkables who aren’t afraid of her.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
People who come forward are called narcs, tattletales and snitches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
We live in a culture increasingly at the mercy of tattletales.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
Teachers are exceptionally good at dealing with tattletales, and I would not worry about this behavior in Zoom class.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2020
They are “really articulate tattletales on the thermal history of the body in the way that other things aren’t,” she says—and the implications could be far-reaching.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2019
Sometimes the house servants were the betrayers, they were closest to the masters, known to be tattletales, certain to be rewarded because of their talebearing.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
