tut-tut
Americaninterjection
interjection
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of tut-tut
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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I recognize that it’s easy to ride my high horse to a moral high ground and look down my and my horse’s nose at any app a platform creator may make and tut-tut.
From The Verge • Mar. 11, 2020
“Suns” is a brutal but fairly simple story, so the opening-night audience knew exactly when to tut-tut.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2018
Sometimes acquaintances will sadly tut-tut about her hungry days splitting a $1.99 breakfast with her mother, and scraping together cash for a dollar slice of pizza at night.
From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2018
We want to watch a train wreck and then tut-tut in a smug self-satisfied way about the irresponsibility of the people who caused it.
From Slate • May 29, 2012
Greene does not tut-tut over the fact that this reasoning depends on complex mathematics.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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