tattletale

Example Sentences

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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

The only impulse regular American grown-ups have to this kind of nonsense is to send the stupid little tattletale to his room until he shuts up his whining.

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2017

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

This wouldn’t be so bad if Mr. Dussel weren’t such a tattletale and hadn’t singled out Mother to be the recipient of his reports.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank