tittle-tattle
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Prosecutor Andrew Scott said the detective had accessed logs involving "a relatively minor complaint" and "tittle-tattle" relating to her male friend, which was being dealt with by uniformed officers.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as "utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2021
It was hard to take a news holiday, over Thanksgiving, what with the protests in Ferguson, the live updates, the streaming commentary, the instant video, the on-the-spot reporting, and the tittle-tattle of Twitter.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2014
The caipirinhas and cavier of the World Cup will make way for a daily diet of rumours, tittle-tattle and exasperation over the next few weeks.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2014
I couldn’t afford to be the topic of neighborhood tittle-tattle.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
But just now there are also tittle-tattles in the hall.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
Them as tittle-tattles about dead folks needn't look to lie quiet theirselves in their graves.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He will not take part in these little tittle-tattles.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
You can, well, cork the mouths of a thousand bottles, But not that of one that always tittle-tattles.
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan
Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least she on more than one occasion tittle-tattled about her.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville
While visiting Bonn with the President in July, he appeared with a new German friend in a manner so cozy that it immediately made the Washington Star's tittle-tattling "Ear" column.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no card playing, "quarreling with or whipping wives . . . tittle-tattling ... or running about."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr Cargrim, by his late tittle-tattling conversation, had fallen in her good opinion; and she was not going to let him off without a sharp rebuke for his unfounded chatter.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
Going every night to that wicked, cruel, shameful girl and tittle-tattling.
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
"Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity," but charity is not to be found in that tittle-tattling, excited crowd of talkers.
From The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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