Meaning & use
Tattling
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Telling someone in authority about another person's wrongdoing or secrets, often in a petty or annoying way.
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The younger kids kept tattling on each other to the teacher.
Nobody liked him because he was always tattling about minor rule-breaking.
A note on using this word
"Tattle" originally meant idle chatter or gossip before narrowing to the specific sense of informing on someone.
Words with a similar meaning
snitchingtelling tales
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