tattle

• Do you have any phobias or fears that would disqualify you from torture, such as: drowning, bugs, Christmas Carols, being called a tattle-tale, etc.? —  PoliticalDerby.com
• As you remarked to me, my dear aunt, tittle-tattle is the mark of petty individuals and petty minds. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
• She was a determined enemy of all trifling and tittle-tattle, as not only unbecoming the Christian character, but destructive of religious feeling; and the consciousness of having uttered a useless word, or engaged in unprofitable conversation, always occasioned her pain. —  Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York
• Cosimo seems to have been conversant with the tittle-tattle, and, fearing the evil effect it might have for all concerned, determined to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and to keep the scandal within the family His son Piero--who was walking closely in his father's footsteps, and leading a free and fast, wild life, heavily in debt and habitually intoxicated, and the companion of loose women and gamesters--should be his scapegoat. —  The Tragedies of the Medici
• As you remarked to me, my dear Aunt, tittle-tattle is the mark of petty individuals and petty minds. —  Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales

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