Thesaurus / tattling
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No, she wouldn't castigate old Major Roper for tattling, and at the same time cross-examine him for her own purposes.
SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGANTattling observers were estimated at their small importance there, as everywhere, by one so high above them.
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHIt is a miserable scandal of some of the tattling gossips, and it will be forgotten, perhaps, to-morrow.
KING OF THE CASTLEGEORGE MANVILLE FENN"We had no idea of tattling on you, but it seems you have taken a lot of trouble to bother us, since we came," retorted Cleo.
THE GIRL SCOUTS AT SEA CRESTLILLIAN GARISHe had just received the emphatic warning against "tattling."
TOLD IN THE HILLSMARAH ELLIS RYANAnd he scorns all my accusations against Jake, and treats me worse than some silly, tattling servant girl.
THE NIGHT RIDERSRIDGWELL CULLUM"No fear of my tattling," and the boy smiled curiously to himself as he bent over the book, polishing the brassbound cover.
THE MYSTERIOUS KEY AND WHAT IT OPENEDLOUISA MAY ALCOTTThere is no parallel to the prying, tattling, backbiting littleness of the place elsewhere in the world.
VENETIAN LIFEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSThe former was the widow of a substantial farmer, a narrow-minded, tattling old gossip, whose character is not worth describing.
THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALLANNE BRONTEHe introduces a "sewing-bee" of tattling women, one of whom happens to be a stranger to the town, and unfamiliar with its gossip.
PLAY-MAKINGWILLIAM ARCHERWORDS RELATED TO TATTLING
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