TUT-TUTTED (OVER OR ABOUT) Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

tut-tutted (over or about)

verb

past tense of tut-tut (over or about)

as in disliked

to hold an unfavorable opinion of ever since the invention of talkies, someone or other has been tut-tutting about the bad language heard in movies

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These small transgressions added up to a sense of ourselves as special, exempt from the rules—but also disliked, distrusted, untrustworthy, apart.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
However, the restrictive PVs were greatly disliked by the population.

— Chinatsu Tsuji, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026

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