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
All media; corporate media, social media, local media, national media, state media, non-profit, for-profit and the tattletale kid down the street.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024
He has established a tattletale line to complain about teachers.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
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
I’m not a tattletale, and I’m not going to get even through Principal Hornstein.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.