What's the difference between snitch and tell?

Snitch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
  • (2) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (3) That’s probably how they came upon me and my house – probably someone ended up talking to them and they dry-snitched on me.
  • (4) It is thus easy for the organisation to dismiss them as weird, as grasses, snitches, friends of any enemy, even if the enemy is the public interest.
  • (5) The major basis for suspecting Griggs and Johnson killed Rondeau was the word of a snitch named Eugene Hawes.
  • (6) Even though the burden is formally on the state, it substantively kind of shifts the burden to the claimant.” Marc Freeman and the snitch test: ‘We as citizens have to hold to the laws but the police do not’ Marc Freeman outside the site at Homan Square.
  • (7) Snitches get stitches,” she reminded the courtroom, a comment that was met with audible groans from the pews.
  • (8) My mind struggled with the fact that if I was to tell somebody then it would seem like I was a snitch.
  • (9) The following morning, staff in her office arrived to find this message spelt out in magnets on their fridge: “ Jesse Brown snitches get stitches ”.
  • (10) Saeed, who was born in Libya and came to the UK in 2000, said he was worried he would be labelled a “snitch”.
  • (11) But he did put a knife up to his neck, and it lingered for a significant amount of time and then he eventually cut the strings of his sweater.” After another intimidating request by the sergeant to snitch was followed by another unanswered request from the young man to use the bathroom and yet another for legal counsel, his lawsuit states, Deanda Wilson urinated himself in his cell while shackled to the wall at Homan Square.
  • (12) Keep sending this around to bare man, make sure no snitch boys get dis!!!
  • (13) "Once they have what they want, we snitches become dispensable."
  • (14) Interview and observational data yielded three general status classes comprising thirteen associated identities: killer, fighter, assaultive person, fag, rapist, doper, drunk, victim, con, nut, weirdo, snitch, and disoriented.
  • (15) California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ceded modest reforms: more evidence of gang activity would be needed to banish an inmate to the SHU, and a four-year step-down programme to leave solitary confinement without snitching was introduced.
  • (16) When persons do not trust the police to act on their behalf and to treat them fairly and with respect,” Rosenfeld writes, “they lose confidence in the formal apparatus of social control and become more likely to take matters into their own hands.” This idea, which is not new in the fields of criminology or sociology, holds that the emergence of “honor codes”, for example ones which admonish “snitching” and promote informal resolutions to conflict, can drive violent crime.
  • (17) Toles related that Harris’s admissions upset him because what Harris did was wrong,” the police recorded the snitch explaining.
  • (18) Filed on Tuesday night in the US district court for the southern district of New York, the case accuses the US attorney general, Eric Holder, the FBI director, James Comey, the homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, and two dozen FBI agents of creating an atmosphere in which Muslims who are not accused of wrongdoing are forbidden from flying, apparently as leverage to get them snitching on their communities.
  • (19) They appeared interested in turning him into a snitch.
  • (20) There’s good detectives and there’s bad detectives, there’s good interrogators and there’s bad interrogators.” When Andre Griggs (left) got fingered by a snitch for the high-profile murder of Renee Rondeau (middle), he says Zuley and his colleagues coerced him into signing a false confession – following hours of shackling and withdrawal at a Chicago police precinct.

Tell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
  • (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
  • (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
  • (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
  • (v. t.) To order; to request; to command.
  • (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.
  • (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
  • (v. i.) To give an account; to make report.
  • (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
  • (n.) That which is told; tale; account.
  • (n.) A hill or mound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (4) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (5) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (6) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
  • (7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (8) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
  • (9) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (10) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (11) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
  • (12) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
  • (13) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (14) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
  • (15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (16) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
  • (18) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (19) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (20) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.