tattletale
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Danielle Spencer, the former child star who played sassy tattletale Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!,” has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
You can avoid being branded a tattletale or flirt or a traitor.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2019
Can you imagine what a tattletale crybaby he must have been at home?
From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
Our bosses love her and are thrilled she’s doing nonprofit work, so I’m afraid if I bring it up to them I’ll seem like a childish tattletale.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2016
A tattletale neurochip decided I would get a hooded peek of what I had done.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
People who come forward are called narcs, tattletales and snitches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
We live in a culture increasingly at the mercy of tattletales.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
Teachers are exceptionally good at dealing with tattletales, and I would not worry about this behavior in Zoom class.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2020
They are “really articulate tattletales on the thermal history of the body in the way that other things aren’t,” she says—and the implications could be far-reaching.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2019
Sometimes the house servants were the betrayers, they were closest to the masters, known to be tattletales, certain to be rewarded because of their talebearing.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
