tattle
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He said clarity was required as to whether someone might be aware of IRA membership or if their knowledge may be based on "tittle tattle".
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023
We’re hesitant to tattle to our supervisor, but since we’re equals, we’re also not comfortable confronting her.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
It has morphed into a broader movement and mind-set encouraging people to tattle on one another to the courts or the state — with grave consequences.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2022
“If Walls Could Talk” they might tattle on the home healthcare worker a woman hires to look after her widowed mother in this new TV movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
“You gonna tattle on me, Neecie-Pop?” he groans as he takes the next step.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
Crawford busts up the little gathering and tattles to Davis: “Your girl was corrupting my twins.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2017
One young woman whom he tattles on has been wronged by Sam Gobel himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gregers Werle tattles to Hialmar Ekdal, who is much too little a fool to disbelieve him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Place de la Concorde now gleams a pale ochre; the massive Corinthian columns of the Madeleine glow a soft pink; the Louvre no longer tattles of neglect.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Ruth sent six hundred texts last month,” Elisha tattles.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
This wasn’t the first time Waymo has tattled on alleged troublemakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
In “American Dreams,” Julia Alvarez recalls a childhood candy store and its “tinkling bell that tattled I was coming in the door.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019
A disgruntled Congressional Country Club member tattled on the course for removing too many trees.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2018
Whoever tattled about someone’s private health condition should be ashamed.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2015
“Who tattled? Tell me. Someone is on to us.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Michael Freedman, a California defense lawyer, said he has noticed an uptick in incidents of jurors tattling on one another to judges rather than working out their differences in jury rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Critics saw the tattling as a shift from mutual aid toward control and branding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Now, he said, “Bark has taken that piece out of it. The other student doesn’t have to feel like they’re betraying or tattling or anything like that.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2019
And he had to roll the dice that I would not bother him, that I wouldn’t be #MetroMonica, tattling on him to the police.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2018
“I see. Well, there are other things going on, but relating them might fall more into the category of tattling, which we all hate, so I won’t mention them.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
