Thesaurus results for TATTLER

tattler

noun

ˈtat-lər

Definition of tattler

as in informant

a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing as the office's resident tattler, she can be counted on to report any unauthorized use of the photocopiers

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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

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Noun

Sentenced to life in prison, Buchanan maintained a grip over gangs in the South Bay area of San Diego, according to an FBI report of an informant’s interview.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Sguros was listed as the informant on West’s death certificate, and several months after the initial death investigation, was legally authorized to release West’s remains to a cremation service business.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of informant

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For a cold moment the silence locked a grip on our table, though it was broken, at the edges, by the golf commentators moaning and harrumphing, Rory McIlroy having had a canary on a seventeenth fairway somewhere this championship Sunday.

— Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
Astronauts bring them on journeys to keep an eye on whether or not the water filtration systems are working, much the way miners used to take canaries down to the coal mines to check for poisonous gas leaks.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of canary

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In 1894 French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin isolated the plague bacterium and connected rat infestations to the disease.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
That money will fund a rat model of Jaxson’s gene mutation, which is expected to be studied at UT Southwestern next year.

— Ciara McCarthy October 22, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of rat

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Watt joined play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson after Tony Romo went on leave following his July 23 arrest in Wisconsin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
According to one of the student reporters, SB Nation’s Testudo Times journalist Nolan Rogalski, he and Jude Wilkenfeld believed they were permitted to stand outside the football complex because Maryland is a public university.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporter

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