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
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
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
‘Your uncle does not want gossip and tittle-tattle over breakfast,’ she said tightly.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
He will not take part in these little tittle-tattles.
From Miss Mapp by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Them as tittle-tattles about dead folks needn't look to lie quiet theirselves in their graves.
From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Narayanan, A. R.
But just now there are also tittle-tattles in the hall.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Penrose, Margaret
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 Melville, Lewis
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
I heard water tittle-tattling away in deep shadow below.
From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Mr Cargrim, by his late tittle-tattling conversation, had fallen in her good opinion; and she was not going to let him off without a sharp rebuke for his unfounded chatter.
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
Going every night to that wicked, cruel, shameful girl and tittle-tattling.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
