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Synonyms for tattle

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for tattle

to engage in or spread gossip

to give incriminating information about others, especially to the authorities

idle, often sensational and groundless talk about others

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Synonyms for tattle

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"It is our goal to remove the misperception that tea is a complicated drink, and show [consumers] they can easily enjoy a great tasting cup of tea with no fuss," said Anthony Borthwick, tea expert at Tattle Tea.
Tattle Tails, handmade tassels, were designed to add dazzle to the Clever Clip and are available in three styles.
The woman was smoking when she opened the oven which had accidentally been left on at her home in Tattle Bank, Southam.
How she knew this was unclear, but she spoke of it with great disgust, telling my friend that Kennedy was lucky she wasn't the sort to tattle, since his family would surely have been horrified had they known.
The recently released listening figures which show a drop in those tuning into BBC Five Live have perhaps got something to do with a football programme based on baseless rumour and tittle tattle.
If executives still aren't convinced about the need to properly track or manage software use, they had better consider another incentive provided by the BSA: It has set up a toll-free phone number that whistleblowers--employees, former employees, competitors and others--can use to tattle on companies that are breaking the law with regards to software use.
Photographs accompany most of the names, and the website invites people to "have a traitor added to this page." If you click there to send an e-mail and tattle, you are warned that "all e-mails sent to ProBush.com are monitored by the U.S.
Recently, I was looking for a way to keep my cats off the furniture when I came upon the Tattle Tale from K II Enterprises.
People hate it when others tattle. If I report on a cheater, others may say, "You can't say anything around her, she'll tell the teacher," and I won't be trusted.
Slate's Timothy Noah picked up our January-February item about the Skull & Bones directive advising fellow members not to tattle on George W.
Then he turns bitterly on the crow for having disturbed, unasked, his unsuspicious bliss; he plucks the bird's feathers, turns him black, takes away his power of speech, changes his sweet song to a raucous croak, and flings him to the Devil, thus accounting for the present appearance of all crows and serving as a warning to all tattle - tales.
Now, this dramatic report wasn't on the "tittle tattle" segment of a ropey commercial station, this was the august national BBC for heaven's sake!
Whereas a basic CRB is based on facts, ie convictions, as I understand it the enhanced version contains much which is nothing more than tittle tattle.
If the action gets too intense, sit out and lick your lollipop or just tattle on the others.
The brother recently got this note from the Skull and Bones command center: "In view of the political happenings in the barbarian world, I feel compelled to remind all of the tradition of privacy and confidentiality essential to the well being of our Order and strongly urge stout resistance to the seductions and blandishments of the Fourth Estate." Translated we think this adds up to: "Don't tattle on W."