telltale

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The telltale is when the project lead goes for the "we've come so far". And then lists...

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Quick take

someone who gossips indiscreetly

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of telltale gathered in one view.

noun

someone who gossips indiscreetly

adjective

disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for telltale.

noun

someone who gossips indiscreetly

adjective

disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"

Example sentences

The telltale is when the project lead goes for the "we've come so far". And then lists...

Looking back there were so many telltale signs that I had over the last six months, which I was ignoring as I was busy building my startup. A regular health check has the potential to catch a problem like this.

Also taking a photo of your screen hides a lot of the telltale giveaways of a rendered image. But yeah, Blender's renderer is pretty amazing.

Study body language and you'll be pretty shocked at how often peoples' spoken words contradict their telltale non-verbal cues. Citation please.

After 6 hours at work, periodically biking and reading online, I noticed my urine was coca-cola colored, and that it was the telltale sign of rhabdo. I knew that because the crossfit instructor drilled it into my head two days earlier.

There's no excuse for not warning people that the server they just started is a crippled data store limited to 2GB. Again, I like MongoDB. Given my experience with software development, those issues are telltale signs of a product in its infancy. Hence the "10 years" title of my post, which of course is hyperbole.