titter

But the laugh still felt to me like the queasy titter of being backed into a corner, with nowhere else to go.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

As a consumer product for those who titter, this production appears to check all the boxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

By the time the first half of the film had been unfolded yesterday the spectators were beginning to titter gently.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019

Seven days quiz What wisecrack caused a titter before the Queen's Speech?

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2017

They eat hummus and pita and titter in French.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

The upper keys were pressed to combine different types of laughter, from titters to belly laughs, and the foot pedals controlled the timing and duration of the laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The titters would feel dismissive, except that they also fit the tone’s grand-scale terror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

The titters remained even after Smith shouted for Rock to keep Jada Pinkett Smith’s name out of his mouth.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, “I was his girlfriend.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

The point was that Bush lacked “moral courage,” Mr. Trudeau explained defensively, though more than a few readers must have tittered at the cruelty of his word choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Twenty-three-year-old actress Sammy Mendoza tittered nervously, a chorus of giggles trailing her across a North Hollywood studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

A few girls — and women — tittered in tiaras.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

But titter not, lest you be tittered, it’s back tomorrow and the cold turkey will be brief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2021

"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach, who scrunched up her shoulders and tittered behind a plump hand.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

I showed up not long after doors opened and was greeted by two lengthy lines of well-dressed people crowding the block, tittering with expectation, interacting with myriad Ramp employees identifiable by those yellow lanyards.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As you enter, the smell of sweat intermingles with the tittering of classical piano music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

And that, Youssef said in a half-joke that turned Stewart’s misty eyes to tittering ones, is why he was forced to flee Egypt.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022

"But if the husband of that tittering Tarkheena friend of yours is paying his head groom to get the best oats, then I think the head groom is cheating him."

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis