| 单词 | telltale |
| 释义 | telltale (once / 6762 pages) adjn Something that's telltale accidentally relays important information. A wise parent can tell who ate the last of the birthday cake by the telltale chocolate smudges on the culprit's face. The telltale dark circles under your teacher's eyes betray how little sleep he got last night, and a telltale bulge in a shopper's pocket is sometimes enough for a store owner to suspect she's a shoplifter. If it's telltale, its very presence reveals something. A famous occurrence of telltale, although it's spelled with a hyphen, is Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart," about a murderer who imagines he's betrayed by the telltale beating of his victim's heart. WORD FAMILYtelltale: telltales USAGE EXAMPLESIt was a telltale sign of someone from poor... New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) Beyond such telltales, however, the complexity of the job works against presidential longevity these days. Washington Times(Nov 23, 2016) Wearing the miner’s telltale blue pants with reflective strips on the legs, Prater would be heading underground that night. Time(Nov 21, 2016) 1adj disclosing unintentionally a telltale panel of lights a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down Syn revealing, telling informative, informatory providing or conveying information 2n someone who gossips indiscreetly Syn|Hyper blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others |
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