tittle-tattle
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But such tittle-tattle was the lifeblood of Italian football and he was bullish, saying Lentini - living his boyhood dream and contracted to June 1995 - wasn't for sale.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as "utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2021
Actual football looks unlikely for a little while so, in the meantime, lose yourself in the underworld of meaningless tittle-tattle:
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2020
It was hard to take a news holiday, over Thanksgiving, what with the protests in Ferguson, the live updates, the streaming commentary, the instant video, the on-the-spot reporting, and the tittle-tattle of Twitter.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2014
I couldn’t afford to be the topic of neighborhood tittle-tattle.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Them as tittle-tattles about dead folks needn't look to lie quiet theirselves in their graves.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
You can, well, cork the mouths of a thousand bottles, But not that of one that always tittle-tattles.
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan
But just now there are also tittle-tattles in the hall.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
He will not take part in these little tittle-tattles.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least she on more than one occasion tittle-tattled about her.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville
While visiting Bonn with the President in July, he appeared with a new German friend in a manner so cozy that it immediately made the Washington Star's tittle-tattling "Ear" column.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no card playing, "quarreling with or whipping wives . . . tittle-tattling ... or running about."
From Time Magazine Archive
And I remember that once she had been tittle-tattling as usual, and had said something more indefensible than usual of her benefactress, when looking up suddenly we found Miss Champion in the room.
From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan
Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? 'tis well they are whispering.
From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
I heard water tittle-tattling away in deep shadow below.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
