Sentence examples for tat from inspiring English sources
noun
Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
Our voters began to show their frustration at "tit for tat" politics "Are they all talking about the same country?
Iran's opposition has attacked the regime for its portrayal of the UK riots, saying it is deliberately making them appear to be protests against the British monarchy as a tit for tat against the UK government for its criticism of human rights violations in Iran over the past years.
Forget the kingfisher, mute swan or hen harrier, it has to be a magpie; loud, cocky, bit of a geezer, always on the lookout for something to nick, it fills its nest with cheap, gaudy tat and predates on its smaller neighbours.
Where was the cringe-making tat, the gurning mediocrity?
"Our people might be sowing mischief against Assad in Syria this could be a tit for tat," suggests a Turkish official who disapproves of Turkey's efforts to topple Mr Assad.
Plastic tat to Western eyes may be luxuries to the offspring of slum-dwellers.The Dragon Mart is evidence of the symbiotic relationship between state and entrepreneurial capitalism.
From his shelter under a sheet in the UN base in Juba, Cornelius Khan, a Nuer, describes how Dinka soldiers came to his district, searching "house to house" for Nuer to kill.Tit-for-tat killings then spread across a country the size of France.
Amid the tit-for-tat statements and inflated rhetoric Albania's chances of qualifying for Euro 2016 have taken a hit.
There is talk of it being damaged and it is no wonder their supporters, as well as the relatives of Mortensen, are wondering if this is a warped game of tit-for-tat, in its most spiteful form, and some fans have decided to meet fire with fire.
A tit-for-tat cycle of arrests and abductions was established, with Shekau explicitly threatening the kidnap of more girls.
That was just one of a series of tit-for-tat remarks that flew back and forth between the clubs, Torino lamenting the referee's failure to disallow the goal while Juventus mocked their rivals for failing to create any scoring chances of their own.
