How To Use Tut-tut In A Sentence
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I bet a lot of faculty tut-tutted about AIG over their morning New York Times, Starbucks, and double-fiber bran muffin.
Perhaps I was intemperate....
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I noticed horses had been using it - tut-tut, it's a footpath not a bridleway.
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They leaped at the chance to tut-tut predictably about social decay.
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The same Pew Research Center survey found - tut-tut - a surge in the intensity of partisan feelings also turned up a decline in cynicism about government.
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Next, they admired the clothes in the window of Madame Irene's and Adele got the chance to tut-tut about the price of things.
JUST BETWEEN US
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We both agreed, tut-tut, sin gets everywhere these days. She'd told me that McGunn was not an uncommon name hereabouts.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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We expose them, laugh at their mistakes (which often we make too), have cries of loud tut-tuts and generally get our entertainment at their expense.
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We tut-tutted our tongues about the performance of the singer.
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He took the bait and now you get to tut-tut about his emotional reaction and make sanctimonious statements about ‘art.’
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They tut-tut - if only he had a regular coach… if only he practised more… if only he would concentrate… And they are driving him potty.
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They tut-tutted about the radical and fringe political discussions out in the wilds of the online world, without a thought in their heads for how many times they have invited fringe people on their own screens, and then egged them on to say ever-more-outrageous things to titillate the public and sell more ads.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech
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Meanwhile, the troika—the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission—trots from country to country, marveling at the accounting ingenuity of the countries that have been bailed out, tut-tutting at the failure of each to meet its targets, and recommending a heavier dose of the medicine that is enfeebling the patient.
Southern Europe Could Learn From Ireland
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Mrs Stokes, a widow and mother of four, says that on the way home she will probably also tut-tut at rubbish in the streets and think it's a shame how many people studiously avoid the eyes of other passers-by.
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We tut-tutted our tongues about the performance of the singer.
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Rubbish is something we tut-tut at when we come across sweet wrappers, fertiliser bags or even a discarded fridge stuck in a roadside ditch.
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They tut-tutted about the radical and fringe political discussions out in the wilds of the online world, without a thought in their heads for how many times they have invited fringe people on their own screens, and then egged them on to say ever-more-outrageous things to titillate the public and sell more ads.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech
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Most regular readers of this blog can do their own ‘tut-tutting’ without me egging them on.
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I'd tut-tut except I find watching surgery intriguing.
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Labour members tut-tut, and say: ‘Oh well, you know, the Greens are really dominating us on this, and we have to do this because of the Greens.’
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We need to move beyond tut-tutting his opprobrious behavior and figure out a way to undermine or neutralize this very typical strategy of the right wing attack dogs.
Wonk Room » STUDY: Without Reform, American Families’ Spending On Health Care Will Increase More Than 40% By 2019
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In the narrow road, tut-tut taxis hooted at each other.
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I bet a lot of faculty tut-tutted about AIG over their morning New York Times, Starbucks, and double-fiber bran muffin.
Perhaps I was intemperate....
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The opposite, being off-message, is an uncomfortable experience, likely to lead to much tut-tutting and loss of privileges.
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Back in 2008, an acquaintance tut-tutted and brushed aside my complaints about those Philly fans, who overturned cars and looted a luggage store.
Canada, the civilized
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In a week which has seen a rise in pension age become unavoidable and medics have tut-tutted the drinking habits of the aged, as if all elderly people were liable to fall off their Zimmer frames after their second scotch, the question of how old is old is no longer academic.
'How old is old – and does it still matter?'
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Tut-tutting this sort of thing seems to me to be priggish.
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I just can't believe that in the 21st century people still tut-tut over something that's perfectly natural.
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I remember reading a staff editorial in the Los Angeles Times that tut-tutted liberals -- this was in the wake of Bush's little video for the Press Corps dinner in 2004 (the one where he went looking about for WMDs, under cushions, behind the sofa, har-de-har-har).
Distrusting the Bush Leaguers was rational. Taking their word for anything was just plain nuts.
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They put their faces down and give you the ‘silent treatment,’ maybe make a few tut-tuts with their throats.
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Times stylebook tinker’s dam/damn top of the line top secret topsy-turvy totally touching base to wit transparency trioxymoron trunk show tsouris/tsoris tummy-button tut-tutting two other/other two typo-poetry
No Uncertain Terms
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In fact, it's all too easy to look at the rubbish piling up around our borough and tut-tut that nothing is being done.
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There, she gadded about in the snow in a pricey fur coat and cat's eye glasses, even as Ah Ma tut-tutted.
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Once they do, of course, they will tut-tut about how sad and desperate it all is.
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They pursed their lips, tut-tutted at appropriate times, murmured mournfully and commiserated gently.
FINAL RESORT
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My pallor attracted their tut-tutting sanction, and caused them to recommend the red meat that never passed their own lips.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Oh, tut-tut, say the corporate brass, we still have a GM and a PM… it's just that they're no longer based in Austin.
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But, tut-tut, she has now agreed to a bumper pay packet to become the face of Martini, a once-fashionable alcoholic beverage even though she never touches the hard stuff.
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Apart from tut-tuts, I don't recall any concerted attempt to get Jack.
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She noticed the strands of silver at the temple and tut-tutted softly to herself.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Some professors cheered, others tut-tutted, and others asked "Can she do that?
Duke Prof's No-Grading Experiment A Success
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Some passages they would play over and over again, frowning with concentration and tut-tutting with annoyance.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Maybe it only seemed as if the majority of the hockey media across North America, particularly in English-speaking Canada, tut-tutted the choice of Jacques Martin as the new head coach of the Montreal Canadiens during the summer of 2009.
Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010-2011
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It had worked: Stella had often noticed her daughter tut-tutting when Becky and Shona scattered belongings around in Hazel's.
JUST BETWEEN US
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I am also writing under a tut-tutting of disapproval from my husband, not due to neglection of the little ‘un, but because I have accepted a commercial freebie in the form of a chocolate Easter egg from Hotel Chocolat.
Easter Treat
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Amazingly, Perkins then hosted a radio broadcast with Vitter as his guest, where they tut-tutted over the alleged ethical problems of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Forgive and Forget
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Claxby tut-tutted, a sharp little rat-tat through clenched teeth that sounded more like gunshot.
The Fifth Rapunzel
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Now, if the world simply sat back and tut-tutted, every tin-pot dictator would think he could get away with it.
The Sun
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It was the cry of the 1980s, of self - protectionist Thatcherism, that made the wealthier public tut-tut at the poor's housing instead of resolving to have something done about it.
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They actually gain currency when people tut-tut their nasty little jokes.
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Amazingly, Perkins then hosted a radio broadcast with Vitter as his guest, where they tut-tutted over the alleged ethical problems of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Forgive and Forget
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Apart from tut-tuts, I don't recall any concerted attempt to get Jack.
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There were numerous tut-tuts coming from the audience.
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Critics tut-tut that, with their explicit depictions, the statues at Khajuraho and the illustrations in the Kama Sutra are little more than arcane sex manuals.
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Rix has returned to the fold, if not with open arms, merely with a few tut-tuts from his colleagues.
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Every interruption is rightly frowned upon by tennis aficionados who use ridiculous stage-whispered tut-tuts to make their point.
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I remember reading a staff editorial in the Los Angeles Times that tut-tutted liberals -- this was in the wake of Bush's little video for the Press Corps dinner in 2004 (the one where he went looking about for WMDs, under cushions, behind the sofa, har-de-har-har).
Distrusting the Bush Leaguers was rational. Taking their word for anything was just plain nuts.
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We all spent a lot of time tut-tutting about Angie and her lifestyle.
