talk idly
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Imagining herself in Chelsea's predicament, Monica used to talk idly, Ginsburg says, about "poor Chelsea" having to live in a college dorm with Secret Service agents nearby.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had to bear up a little while, for they were in my house, and I must bid them good-night, and talk idly, so that they should not suspect the wound I had.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
This they may say who wish to talk idly, and who would display their humanity at the expense of their honesty or their understanding.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
"Boy, boy," said the veteran, averting his face to conceal the working of his muscles, "you talk idly; my word is now plighted to my kinsman Kit, and thy scheme is impracticable."
From The Pilot by Cooper, James Fenimore
Claver, klā′vėr, n. idle talk, gossip.—v.i. to talk idly.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
