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Another word for telltale

telltale Synonyms

telltale

modif.

tattletale, significant, revealing; see important 1.

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Another word for telltale

noun

A person habitually engaged in idle talk about others:

blab, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattler, tattletale, whisperer. (Slang) yenta. See words

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Dean tried to isolate the sound, looking frantically in all downward directions, trying to see a trace, a telltale puff of smoke in the gathering dusk.
The room smelled of over-cleaning with an underlying aroma of cigarette smoke.
Humor put a telltale twinkle in his eyes long before the lopsided smile began.
Before I could say more, I heard the telltale noise of breaking glass from the far side of the house!
He leisurely began to trace a finger along the elastic waistband in search of a telltale imperfection he could locate on a later date, giving identifying confirmation to his theory.

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