tittle-tattle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tittle-tattle
Verb
  • As Wharton continues to blather at June, Luke, Rita and a bunch of others move from the back of the crowd to the front.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
  • Back to the twists, in the scene where Anna is on the truth serum and is blathering, what is the truth serum that is used and how did that idea come about?
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
Verb
  • That’s all Joe can think about, even while Henry’s chattering about his sessions with therapist George, and especially while Kate’s giving him the cold shoulder.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The chattering motion involved the lower beak snapping about 12 times per second.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • The sky was gray, and rain pattered down through the leaves.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Timbaland’s programming is at warp level, with pattering percussion across drum heads, yielding a crowd-pleaser that Elliott carries at a galloping pace.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The result is an entirely incoherent crime thriller that features gangsters prattling on about the self and the ego and the soul and then occasionally wandering into an entirely different scene where other gangsters are prattling on about the same thing.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 27 May 2025
  • One half of a pair of young twins prattles on incessantly about some sci-fi arcana while the boy’s bored-looking mother and his quieter brother tune him out.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • Ahead of the audiobook’s May 7 release, and a promotional tour that Wilson admitted is poised to put their love of chat to the ultimate test, the authors spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about all things gab.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Trump’s tendency to gab meant that minimizing his time on the witness stand was a no-brainer.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • Immediately after the Celtics ended their season with a loss, former star player Paul Pierce took to social media to troll the Knicks.
    Ryan Stano, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
  • Something similar happened to the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City when, in the Season Four finale, Monica Garcia was unmasked as a co-conspirator of Reality Von Tease — an anonymous gossip account that had been trolling the cast for years.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Another version is dotted with oily little pepperoni cups and smattered with hot honey: simple and satisfying.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Glover’s patchwork ethos is smattered across its seven installments.
    WIRED, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • In turn, Bao Li — the social one, the zoo noted — happily bleated back.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Sheep were bleating, kicking, and being hurled in all directions.
    Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
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“Tittle-tattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tittle-tattle. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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