tittle-tattle

How To Use tittle-tattle In A Sentence

• During my playing career, what passed as scandals were more along the lines of tabloid tittle-tattle than criminal investigations.
• I deplored the way that, when the two of us were alone together, he would listen to tittle-tattle for hours on end when he must have known full well that not only was it disloyal to the victims but that both of us had more important things to do.
• Those that love to boast of their business and make a noise about it, and that waste their time in tittle-tattle, in telling and hearing new things, like the Athenians, and, under pretence of improving themselves by conversation, neglect the work of their place and day, they waste what they have, and the course they take tends to penury, and will end in it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• It is a fascinating read - serious observations on the latest political developments and possible ways of developing theoretical ideas, alongside tittle-tattle, gossip, complaints about the weather and even laundry lists.
• What these documents add is gossip and tittle-tattle between the negotiators. Letters: Palestine leak and the peace process
• They always want to cloud the issue with facts and figures, spoiling what should be a hot and heavy session of tittle-tattle with words like ‘truth’ and ‘proof’.
• The views of a union leader about a major strike hardly counts as tittle-tattle.
• The man is to music bloggers what pissed Whitehall tittle-tattle is to Westminster diarists. Kanye West's Runaway: Purple Rain or bird brains?
• Weaving through all this tittle-tattle is a narrative.
• It's a strange combination of gossip and in-house tittle-tattle.