tittle-tattle
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His weekly, Next, which began as a print magazine but now has only a digital edition, writes a lot about celebrities and covers local tittle-tattle, but also provides unstinting support for the protests.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
Gigi prefers playing card games with a friend of a family, a beet sugar baron who drops by to escape the latest tittle-tattle about his eligible bachelorship in the press.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2019
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
When transfer windows were introduced, they were seen as potentially damaging for the red tops, for which transfer tittle-tattle was a staple.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2014
My ears burned as I imagined the tittle-tattle of ladies at the Chinese Opera House, the girls and guys at the drugstore, the men in the cigar shops.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
But just now there are also tittle-tattles in the hall.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
Them as tittle-tattles about dead folks needn't look to lie quiet theirselves in their graves.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He will not take part in these little tittle-tattles.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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
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
There was no card playing, "quarreling with or whipping wives . . . tittle-tattling ... or running about."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Ada Alice Arabella Angelina Andal, Why do you talk for ever, such a tittle-tattling scandal?
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
"Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity," but charity is not to be found in that tittle-tattling, excited crowd of talkers.
From The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Who could have been tittle-tattling about me so?
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
