tittle-tattle
Example Sentences
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President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as "utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle."
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2021
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
The gossip columns have a field day and can't believe their luck that such a rich seam of tittle-tattle is laid out on a platter for them.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2014
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
