tattling

Example Sentences

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Q. Tattling: I happen to be working at home today at the dining room table where I can see the neighbors’ house.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2012

Tattling is telling on someone in order to get him in trouble.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shou'd I denounce our Author's fate to Day, To cry down Prophecies, you'd damn the Play: Yet Whims like these have sometimes made you Laugh; 'Tis Tattling all, like Isaac Bickerstaff.

From The Busie Body by Byrd, Jess

"Is there not milking-time, When you go to bed, or kiln-hole, To whistle off these secrets; but you must be Tattling before all our guests?"

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore