Cleopis, Nania, what is this vile tattlingthat I hear?
Now he brought a rumour of Xerxes’s progress, now a bit of Bias’s tattling about his master.
I have no taste for tattle, nor do I allow tattling in my presence; I pry not into my neighbours' lives, nor have I lynx-eyes for what others do.
Though thy steps are faint for pleasure, Let him hear the tattling ripple Of the bangles round thy feet; Moving slowly o'er the blossoms On the path which he has shown thee, That when he turns to listen It may make his fond heart beat.
They are not quite so artless in their conventionality, for they bring with them the social atmosphere of the tattling little town, which is an essential factor in the drama.
He introduces a "sewing-bee" of tattling women, one of whom happens to be a stranger to the town, and unfamiliar with its gossip.
As they were tattling thus together after their own manner of chat, behold!
Consequently, fair stand-up fights were winked at, and anything like tattling or tale-bearing sternly discouraged.
It is a miserable scandal of some of the tattling gossips, and it will be forgotten, perhaps, to-morrow.
I would make an example of the idle tattling woman who makes free with the names and reputations of her betters!
It will serve them right, and be a warning against wagging their tattling tongues so freely for the future.
To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.
The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.
I said, he knew him for a tattling young dog--he had taken the infection from his master, who had trained him.
Am I one to go tattling about the courts forsooth?
Tattling observers were estimated at their small importance there, as everywhere, by one so high above them.
He thought that Dorothy's claim upon his protection would prevent unpleasant scandal, silence the foolish tattling of her former acquaintance, and conduce to her own peace and comfort.
Go to your bed, girl, and let me never hear any of this vile tattling again.
But she had gone away in a fit of displeasure, occasioned, also, by thetattling of Rosamond.
And all these consequences have frequently ensued from the tattling of a tell-tale child.
Never encourage tattling or detraction; if there were no listeners this petty vice could not exist; besides, the habit of listening to this sort of gossip will soon induce you to participate, by similar communications.
Why, that that old Tom Brough ought to be ashamed of himself to come tattling to master about Mr Frank.
He's a nice fellow, he is, for a sugar-baker, to come here tattling and setting people against other people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tattling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
