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单词 tattletale
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Definition of tattletale in English:

tattletale

nounˈtatlteɪlˈtædlˌteɪl
US
  • A person, especially a child, who reveals secrets or informs on others; a telltale.

    泄密者,告密者(尤指小孩子);搬弄是非者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I headed off to find the incumbent tattletale.
    • When you take away the sex, drugs and tattletales, the remaining story is very ordinary.
    • ‘You're a tattletale,’ Blake cross his arms over his chest.
    • But I gotta be careful because I am not a tattletale and I ain't tryin' to make no enemies.
    • It wouldn't be until Monday morning that she'd have to face the consequences of being a tattletale.
    • So now you're going to play tattletale and report everything to icky Snapey?
    • Regina asked, trying to sound like she does not care anymore, but deep inside, she was wondering if Serafina was able to read her mind again or if some tattletale had told her.
    • It wasn't the fear of being a tattletale or anything that held me back.
    • I was never usually a tattletale, but I really wanted to see Rose Marie get busted for this one.
    • Partly it's because I feel a profound sadness when reading accounts by recently-returned-from-somewhere tattletales.
    • Since they don't want to have it happen to them, they figure that if they are silent, they wont be known as tattletales.
    • When she turned and saw him in the house, still wet, the little tattletale opened her mouth to call her mother but her older sister threw the pillow at her to stop her.
    • Jonas does not like Pierre very much because he is ‘very serious, not much fun, and a worrier and tattletale.’
    • ‘The one sitting next to you’ she points at my other side like a tattletale.
    • What drives me up the wall is when the uncouth classes begin their fighting and screeching and petty arguments, or when snide little tattletales run up to me to tell on people.
    • She would, she promised herself, rip the tattletale who had ratted on her from limb to limb.
    • I turned around and saw Andrew, a tattletale ever since he came in the sixth grade.
    • He was their spy, their tattletale, their loyal little grunt in the ever present Boys vs Girls feud that was undoubtedly more vicious than any dreamed up by professional wrestling scriptwriters.
    • No one wants a nation of tattletales, but even the Phillipsburg police admit that there are situations when citizen law enforcers help protect the community.
    • Nothing… well, she can't get in trouble for being a tattletale.
    Synonyms
    informant
verbˈtatlteɪl
[no object]US
  • Reveal someone's secrets; tell tales.

    告密;搬弄是非

    she won the approval of the nuns by maintaining loyalty only to Lee and tattletaling on anyone else
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This isn't tattletaling, it's much more than that.
    • Besides, Santa doesn't tattletale on anyone, not even reindeers.
    • The buzz out of Washington is that she and the anchorman had been tattletaling on each other.
    • But running to the mods and tattletaling on them is just puerile.
    • That might be a nice plot, though one flaw in your reasoning - someone probably tattletaled.
    • That gives me hope the next time an article such as this is printed it will be the women themselves discussing what they want, what they can do, and not looking like whiny girls who tattletaled.
    • I realize that there are cultural differences at play here since you were raised in the UK, but generally, Canadian children are taught that tattletaling is unacceptable and childish behavior.
    • Some old fogies with no sense of playfulness and humor probably tattletaled.
    • Then he weaseled out, ran to Newt and tattletaled on the other coup leaders after he realized his coup partners wouldn't back him for Speaker.
    • Hopi legend says that the spirit of an old woman resides here, tattletaling on any misbehaving tribes.
    • All because the teachers never did a damn thing, and if you tattletaled you were the one who either got ignored, shrugged off and told to deal with it or you got into trouble.
    • And, Dennis, if you weren't being a ‘snitch’ by tattletaling, on me, to the Webslave, what were you doing?
    • It was a weapon and a gift, handed back and forth by the dancers, who fought and flirted, worried and tattletaled.
    • But I have a hunch who tattletaled because that person's call backfired one evening.
    • Sure, I moaned about how everyone was tattletaling like grade-schoolers.
    • I was so angry at her because she went and tattletaled on me, and needless to say she never ratted on herself.
    • In ‘D.W. Blows the Whistle,’ the three adventures resolve problems with tattletaling and name-calling.
    • Also, I want to have a section for undesirable behaviors, such as tattletaling, repeating requests & attitude.
    • I wrote to Charles Brooks at Concoco Phillips and tried to tattletale, but without any real evidence, I'm sure it was less than convincing.
    • Today I shall try to be on the alert not to speak an untruth, not to gossip or tattletale, and not to speak disparagingly about another person.

Definition of tattletale in US English:

tattletale

nounˈtadlˌtālˈtædlˌteɪl
US
  • A person, especially a child, who reveals secrets or informs on others; a telltale.

    泄密者,告密者(尤指小孩子);搬弄是非者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What drives me up the wall is when the uncouth classes begin their fighting and screeching and petty arguments, or when snide little tattletales run up to me to tell on people.
    • Nothing… well, she can't get in trouble for being a tattletale.
    • It wouldn't be until Monday morning that she'd have to face the consequences of being a tattletale.
    • I turned around and saw Andrew, a tattletale ever since he came in the sixth grade.
    • When you take away the sex, drugs and tattletales, the remaining story is very ordinary.
    • Regina asked, trying to sound like she does not care anymore, but deep inside, she was wondering if Serafina was able to read her mind again or if some tattletale had told her.
    • Since they don't want to have it happen to them, they figure that if they are silent, they wont be known as tattletales.
    • ‘You're a tattletale,’ Blake cross his arms over his chest.
    • When she turned and saw him in the house, still wet, the little tattletale opened her mouth to call her mother but her older sister threw the pillow at her to stop her.
    • It wasn't the fear of being a tattletale or anything that held me back.
    • He was their spy, their tattletale, their loyal little grunt in the ever present Boys vs Girls feud that was undoubtedly more vicious than any dreamed up by professional wrestling scriptwriters.
    • She would, she promised herself, rip the tattletale who had ratted on her from limb to limb.
    • Jonas does not like Pierre very much because he is ‘very serious, not much fun, and a worrier and tattletale.’
    • No one wants a nation of tattletales, but even the Phillipsburg police admit that there are situations when citizen law enforcers help protect the community.
    • I headed off to find the incumbent tattletale.
    • I was never usually a tattletale, but I really wanted to see Rose Marie get busted for this one.
    • Partly it's because I feel a profound sadness when reading accounts by recently-returned-from-somewhere tattletales.
    • But I gotta be careful because I am not a tattletale and I ain't tryin' to make no enemies.
    • ‘The one sitting next to you’ she points at my other side like a tattletale.
    • So now you're going to play tattletale and report everything to icky Snapey?
    Synonyms
    informant
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