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- verb Common misspelling of
tattling .
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According to the manual, this means we must withstand (or wallow in) a purgatory of charges and countercharges, a spreading oil slick of complicity and tattletaling, and the appearance of mobs of lawyers huddled on marble steps.
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According to the manual, this means we must withstand (or wallow in) a purgatory of charges and countercharges, a spreading oil slick of complicity and tattletaling, and the appearance of mobs of lawyers huddled on marble steps.
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"I've gotten a lot of letters from churches that are tattletaling on churches down the street that aren't licensed and don't meet standards for food service."
Pennsylvania Pie Fight: State Cracks Down on Baked Goods 2009
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You don't want to scare anybody away if they are -- I mean, some of them will call it tattletaling.
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No exception was allowed, and Charlotte had warned her that if she told our mother about their arrangements she would be committing a mortal sin in the eyes of the church, called “tattletaling.”
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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No exception was allowed, and Charlotte had warned her that if she told our mother about their arrangements she would be committing a mortal sin in the eyes of the church, called “tattletaling.”
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb points out that Cleveland's creepy bins are only the most recent example of "tattletaling objects," things that were once merely functional but now, with technology, have been made aware, for better or worse.
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They'd spent their childhood the regular way, Jordan said, with "sarcasm, tattletaling and clothes stealing."
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (By Kathleen Merryman; 2010
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Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb points out that Cleveland's creepy bins are only the most recent example of "tattletaling objects," things that were once merely functional but now, with technology, have been made aware, for better or worse.
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Michael Rendon may have inspired a tall Fort Lewis College student to take on the role, ordering the chicken suit online to avoid any tattletaling in town.
Durangoherald.com 2009
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