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
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  • 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.
  • Then again, maybe none of this matters and if we have to fill our lives with something, it may as well be acrimonious tittle-tattle about the famous, the sort of famous and those desperately seeking attention.
  • Gossip can be the malicious spreading of misinformation, but unsubstantiated tittle-tattle is sometimes all we have to go on. Readers recommend: songs about gossip
  • And she may gain some idea what the many targets of News of the World tittle-tattle and tell all stories may have felt. Dan Ehrlich: Jail/Hollywood Her Next Career Moves?
  • This kitchen table tittle-tattle had no public interest justification.
  • I like the quote from the intelligence tittle-tattler: In this business nothing is unlikely. Rock steady
  • He would become known to thousands of regular viewers as an extremely witty man with a wicked, often cutting sense of humour that deconstructed the celebrity tittle-tattle the programme was forced to report on.
  • The tittle-tattle brigade is laughing all the way to the latest social do.
  • He is flicking idly through the tabloid tittle-tattle, recounting a story of marital strife, laughing at the expense of others, and yet again avoiding work.
  • Gibson seems to have been ubiquitous in the tittle-tattle press recently, and absolutely none of it is positive. Will Hangover 2 cameo give Mel Gibson more headaches?
  • In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.
  • Thanks for your company on this marathon day of tittle-tattle. Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened
  • Like so much of what's been reported about Lorna Moon, it was largely codswallop, the tittle-tattle of small town gossips.
  • Whatever one's views, it's great to rediscover the ability to animate politics through a discussion of ideas rather than personality or passing tittle-tattle.
  • Not so if it's just so much tittle-tattle about essentially private affairs. News of the World vs. WikiLeaks
  • Tory loyalists pushed out in front of the TV cameras have dismissed this as "tittle-tattle". David Cameron will plough on with the health plan at his peril | Andrew Rawnsley
  • There was some tittle-tattle a few weeks back that eBay was interested in buying the company.
  • They are tittle-tattle, nothing remotely important.
  • I reckon the gossip surrounding her breasts is just that - idle tittle-tattle.
  • Most political diaries are written by politicians themselves but this one records the daily political tittle-tattle told to a wife over the dinner table and is therefore more revealing.
  • To ensure he still had a roof over his head, he would have needed to have a sound idea of how his lord felt about others, and to enable him to avoid any clangers, he would have been privy to much gossip and tittle-tattle.
  • In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.
  • In lieu of direct experience, social tittle-tattle allows people to learn about others across a very wide group, the team say. Pssst ...The human brain is wired for gossip
  • These kind of stories come from tittle-tattle in pubs, or from something as simple as the way a player hangs his head when he walks off the pitch.
  • In a city of few wallflowers, she has the most enticing dance card of all and - like any celluloid high-school heroine - has overcome personal tragedy, tittle-tattle and bad boyfriends in order to get there.
  • Despite this he added: ‘What's important to me is not who does a particular job but that we get the message across and I'm not going to get involved in tittle-tattle and gossip about who does what.’
  • Miss Kitt should never have been subjected to the abuse of their powers by the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., who, under the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, wasted much public money by trying to gather into the relevant files grossly stupid tittle-tattle, in a sinister, surprisingly effective, but fortunately short-lived effort to destroy her career; long enough, however, to do Miss Kitt much damage. Archive 2009-01-01
  • My interest in talking about Keira, however, is not to add to the stockpile of tabloid tittle-tattle.

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