snitching 1 of 3

snitching

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verb (1)

present participle of snitch

snitching

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verb (2)

present participle of snitch

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of snitching
Verb
As officers in his proffer interview gave him an inventory of various Crips colleagues who were snitching, on the run from police or already in prison,Davis summed up the reality of gangsta life. Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026 This isn’t the first instance of a Waymo robotaxi snitching on misbehaving passengers. Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Time off hoarding and snitching ensued. Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026 Rio’s staunch griminess, dreaming of whacking his brother and wanting to cut his nephew’s tongue for snitching, drags Fxce out into the open sea. Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 23 Feb. 2026 The rap world came to interpret this as tantamount to snitching, a violation of a sacred rule in the streets. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025 The Brooklyn native was found with cocaine and MDMA and also admitted to assaulting a man who taunted him about snitching during a recent trip to a Florida mall. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snitching
Noun
  • Blatant, in-your-face lying, cheating and stealing is the norm.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Melanie’s sister, Steph, begged Melanie to leave Sincere because of his compulsive lying and shady behavior.
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • There was so much going on, whether the props department were working on setting up the flowers, setting up the food, the dog trainers were getting the pugs ready, or some of the actors were just hanging out talking.
    Daisy Leepson, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The consensus might be summed up by New York adviser Aileen Agopian, who conveyed a mixed message, talking to ARTnews by phone.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Reiser returned to the majors in 1946 and broke his leg while stealing second.
    Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In April 2025, Pietras was arrested by Connecticut State Police and accused of stealing more than $70,000 in prepayments from clients.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Katrina was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, false informing and failure to report a corpse, while Hopkins was also charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and failure to report a corpse.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
Noun
  • Investigators found that those allegations only scratched the surface of the amount of fraud that was believed to have occurred.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Critics also questioned whether the bill provided sufficient safeguards against fraud, money laundering and market manipulation.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Course designer Leopoldo Palacios’s influential track featured a rollback to the water tray — a bit of trickery that Palacios had famously used at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and had shelved since.
    Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Extremism, in both parties, is a tool of propagandists trying to win elections through trickery.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Leaders managing autonomous agent deployments across enterprise environments have spent years auditing outputs for compliance, deception vectors and guardrail breaches.
    Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Those charges cover a wide range of behaviors related to schemes in which money or property is obtained through deception and interstate electronic communications.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • For some of King’s followers, her double-dealing also is difficult to let go.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • But that rhetoric sounded hollow in the face of its dalliance with a drug-smuggling double-dealing despot like Noriega.
    Time, Time, 25 Nov. 2025

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“Snitching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snitching. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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