tattling

Example Sentences

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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 do not do a lot of tattling.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor