tut-tut

"Tut-tut! be careful how you criticise your neighbors," spoke a rasping voice near by.

And we tut-tut about Muslims bringing their youngsters to join Isis in Syria.

"I always take my make-up off, because otherwise my daughter will come in and say, 'Mummy, tut-tut'," she said.

First day nerves, it seems, can trigger such disasters as turning up late (oh dear), forgetting the company's name (tut-tut), kissing the boss inappropriately (whaaat?), deleting vital documents (nooooo!) and vomiting over the boss's nice cream carpet (aaarrrggghhh!).

The Ohio High School Athletic Association says it will ban any player who "capitalises on athletic fame" and so the suits will tut-tut through a disciplinary hearing later this month and may deny James a college career.

Tut-tut. How many calories in just one Scooby snack?

Israel makes war on Gaza, boards aid ships in international waters and we just tut-tut.

The hydraulic valves operate on their own, uttering a disconcertingly human-sounding "tut-tut" that circles the church several times at increasing speed, metamorphosing into a tiny bird- or batlike flutter: a Holy Spirit flight simulator?

I've gotten used to your pot-shots at Israel in contrast with your tut-tut wrist-slaps at the Arabs, but your recent comments ("A `Good' Shelling," Comment, June issue) beat your worst previous efforts in the nasty demonstration of Jewish self-hate.

Red Tut-tut. That sort of stuff should be kept for Itisin.com

We shake our heads and say tut-tut, to pre-pubescent padded cups, but let us now think of the times, when our own dress amounts to crimes.

CLARE BALDING'S newspaper column always prides itself on taking the moral high ground to the point where she's happy to tut-tut at the extremes of the tabloid press even though she writes for, ahem, a tabloid paper.