tattler

Example Sentences

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Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts to compete with The Post.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2020

In that sense, Tabloid is like an episode of Jerry Springer or Maury, except that the tattler on-camera is not confronted halfway through the show by her adversary.

From Time • Jul. 14, 2011

Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wise Washington hostesses never serve cocktails before him, though he is not a social tattler like Senator Brookhart.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wonder if it'll land me in a tattler or scandal sheet or the late-night newsreel.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton