tittle-tattle
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President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as "utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2021
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
The caipirinhas and cavier of the World Cup will make way for a daily diet of rumours, tittle-tattle and exasperation over the next few weeks.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2014
‘Your uncle does not want gossip and tittle-tattle over breakfast,’ she said tightly.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
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.
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
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
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
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 Cole, E. W. (Edward William)
"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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
