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Recent Examples of tattler Tattling to the Bachelor doesn’t always go well for the tattler. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025 Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts. Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2020 Being a tattler or someone who is too focused on the drama rarely works out, largely because those dudes are more focused on screen time than the lead. Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019 Dwight and Eugene remain at an ideological impasse, but Eugene is too busy waffling between his morality and his desire to stay alive to actually pick a side—and for reasons unknown, Dwight hasn’t found a way to simply ax the potential tattler. Laura Bradley, HWD, 3 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tattler
Noun
  • Diiorio tried to pay a confidential informant to kill her ex-boyfriend, a Philadelphia police officer, and his then 19-year-old daughter, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey first reported in April 2025.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Among the cooperating witnesses expected to testify is Joseph Vincent, a former Drug Enforcement Administration informant who did not testify in the first trial.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Dollywood thus became our Disneyland — from the Tennessee Tornado to the Wild Eagle to the Mystery Mine with the dead canary collapsing before the big drop.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Interspersed throughout the myriad activations of Monterey Car Week is the most important facet for the collector community, and that’s the array of auctions that serve as either an optimistic barometer reading or an ailing canary in the coal mine.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • That kid has tattletale energy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • People who come forward are called narcs, tattletales and snitches.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The rock kids, the funk kids, the disco-ers, the club rats are all fleetingly conjoined by one pair of highly attuned ears loitering on the streets.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Moore begins with a whisper and builds to a roar as Mona improvises a manic rant that involves rats and the plague.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • When asked for comment, an MLB spokesman pointed The Athletic to Eddings’ comments to reporters following Friday’s game.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Kyla Guilfoil Kyla Guilfoil is a breaking news reporter on the politics team for NBC News Digital.
    Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Tattler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tattler. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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