tattle
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But the choice not to tattle on him is simple, and in fact the only straightforward thing about the whole scenario.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
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
“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
And if you have to dig out the recipes again in June, well, I'm not about to tattle on you.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2021
To tell would be to tattle, and Shirley refused to tattle even on that giant of a no-friend of hers.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
Crawford busts up the little gathering and tattles to Davis: “Your girl was corrupting my twins.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2017
Gregers Werle tattles to Hialmar Ekdal, who is much too little a fool to disbelieve him.
From Time Magazine Archive
One young woman whom he tattles on has been wronged by Sam Gobel himself.
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
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
I believe I tattled as much on me as anybody else.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2013
Because the I.T.F. never revealed the nature of its agreement with Odesnik, a perception emerged, fairly or not, that he tattled on some of his peers.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2012
I got away with it because I had my own room at the far end of the hall, whereas my brothers all had to share, and they would have tattled in a red-hot second.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
So when another former teammate, Kyle Schwarber, ambled to his locker a few minutes later, Turner feigned the role of tattling little brother.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2023
In the end, the BSC vanquishes the BSA by, essentially, tattling on them to the town’s parents.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2020
And anyhow, I thought, tattling to his mom would probably backfire.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
