tattler

Example Sentences

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Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts to compete with The Post.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2020

In that sense, Tabloid is like an episode of Jerry Springer or Maury, except that the tattler on-camera is not confronted halfway through the show by her adversary.

From Time • Jul. 14, 2011

Far from being ridiculed as a tattler, Sudd has been hailed as a heroine in Twentynine Palms, where fellow students hug her and the city plans to honor her.

From Time Magazine Archive

It remained for the nation's No. i tattler, Friend Winchell, to reveal Policeman Hoover's only romance.

From Time Magazine Archive

"What if I wanted to test it? See if you can land this woman in the tattler Ugly Papers at the end of the year."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton