Crossword-Solution: TELLTALE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Telltale | a. | Telling tales; babbling. |
| Telltale | n. | One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress. |
| Telltale | n. | A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted. |
| Telltale | n. | A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. |
| Telltale | n. | A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course. |
| Telltale | n. | A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted. |
| Telltale | n. | The tattler. See Tattler. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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Sentences with TELLTALE (5)
Too late he divined her “drift.” The handle of the telltale tea-spoon was visible under the bed-valance.
Why only a few days ago we received and entertained a friend of yours who brought a letter from you to papa--the Count de Cadenet.” Again that telltale flush mantled the man's cheek.
She was not down until she had taken time to bathe her red eyes, powder her telltale nose, smoothe her ruffled hair, and whip herself into the calm, steady-eyed, self-controlled young woman that Arkwright finally rose to meet when she came into the room.
Well, what are you going to do about it?” “About what?” “What I have just told you.” “I don’t feel that I have any call to do anything.” “You ought to tell your employer.” “I am no telltale,” said James scornfully.
But he saw and instantly understood the look in her eyes--the strained effort to keep the telltale upper lip from giving its prompt and irrepressible signal of inward agitation.
Quotes with TELLTALE (3)
Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared...
Where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? — Love's Labor Lost. The eyes appears to be more immediately connected with the soul than any other organ. A woman reflects every emotion, almost every thought from her two wonderful, priceless eyes, and no feature of her face is more a telltale of her nature. "Show me," says the old Chinese proverb, "a man's eyes, and I will tell you what he might have been. Show me his mouth, and I will tell you what he …
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 54 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).