titter

The crowd began to titter as Newman shaded his eyes, pretending to look into the stands for a challenger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

By the time the first half of the film had been unfolded yesterday the spectators were beginning to titter gently.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019

We titter and tremble over ‘fake news’ that most discerning readers, re: nominally intelligent adults, would spot on their Facebook News feeds in about a New York minute.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

Seven days quiz What wisecrack caused a titter before the Queen's Speech?

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2017

“No argument there,” snorted Baron Hoover, which made his wife titter.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

In the Netflix film, Swan demonstrates with calipers on a life-size, anatomically correct male baby doll in a coffee shop to the nervous titters of the participants.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

The upper keys were pressed to combine different types of laughter, from titters to belly laughs, and the foot pedals controlled the timing and duration of the laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The titters would feel dismissive, except that they also fit the tone’s grand-scale terror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

"And there was understandably a lot of titters, laughter and giggles - but it's starting to feel like a tangible thing that could actually come to fruition."

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

The simulacrum swells, titters, and then falls into a pile of laughing shadows, their cackles falling against my ears like slivers of ice.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The point was that Bush lacked “moral courage,” Mr. Trudeau explained defensively, though more than a few readers must have tittered at the cruelty of his word choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Do you think they’ll let me take home one of the freaky sandworm popcorn buckets?” someone in the crowd tittered.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Twenty-four-year-old actor Sammy Mendoza tittered nervously, a chorus of giggles trailing her across a North Hollywood studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

But titter not, lest you be tittered, it’s back tomorrow and the cold turkey will be brief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2021

In the back of the room someone tittered.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As Hedda’s actions grow more extreme, the audience could be heard tittering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

“Joe Biden,” Cooper said as the tittering subsided.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022

As the Dauphine and Cavalieri, Thomas and Jaster make starving for attention into a show of flamboyance — she tittering shamelessly and he performing a full actor’s warm-up for a simple game of charades.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

When Richie was fourteen he’d grown from a tittering, cackling torturer of me to a handsome, slick high school kid who was an outstanding tenor sax player.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride