Meanings of tut-tut in English

Then you hear the rapid tut-tut-tut of his machine gun.

They shouldn't be tempted to tut-tut at clients who have had sex during lockdown.

The rest of us tut-tut at the ghoul, while having a good gawp for ourselves.

Confounded, he studied the thump-throb, tut-tut-tut-tut that was bringing all these details to his ears.

But even those who tut-tut Dettori's Italian exuberance might melt when faced with such obvious relief.

Listen to the "tut-tut" of the old gentleman at Albi:-

Then the Lord changed the inquisitive woman into a restless Woodpecker, and with a "tut-tut!"

Sayst thou to all this, tut-tut?

Many in Ireland tut-tut these rogue scientists, assuming their nightmarish undertaking couldn't happen here - but they are wrong.

This should be convincing, to say least; but lest thou say tut-tut again, I tell thee, O my Midas!

The media has to tut-tut away and decide that they're the worst thing to happen since (...)

The high-energy penetrators tut-tut-tutted against the impenetrable suit, barely forcing it back a foot or two from its wavering mark.

Their strongest rebuke is to tut-tut smokers.Yet Volvo, desperate to shed this reputation, wants to walk on the wild side.

The media has to tut-tut away and decide that they're the worst thing to happen since the last worst thing.

We talk about our personal carbon footprint, argue the finer points of buying carbon credits, tut-tut over Al Gore's energy-bingeing McMansion.

It's a chance to tut-tut about binge drinking and alcohol sponsorship and the perils of putting young men up on pedestals.