tattler

How to use tattler in a sentence

That the child should be abject and agonized before the grim, cynical tattler of Whisper Cove!

The next morning Mr. Belcher was up early in order to get his "Tattler" as soon as it was dropped at his door.

A copy of the 'Tattler' lay on the table, which bore unmistakable evidences of having been spitefully crushed in the hand.

SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLAND

From what office this tattler came he did not know; but it was evident that Bradish was cognizant of the trick.

"What a silly tattler I am to tell such shocking things to that poor sick child," she said to herself, with lively compunction.

If she could only say something, she thought, that would clear this matter up and make him feel that she was no tattler.

JENNIE GERHARDTTHEODORE DREISER

He was a great gossip and tattler, and to produce a laugh would hardly have spared the reputation of his aged mother.

Titt′le-tatt′ler, a trifling tattler; Titt′le-tatt′ling, the act of talking idly.

Willet, wil′et, n. a North American bird of the snipe family, belonging to the tattler group—also Stone-curlew.

She always reminds me of the pretty bas bleu immortalized by the 'Spectator'—or is it the 'Tattler'?

JESSAMINEMARION HARLAND

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985