driveling
Example Sentences
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"I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Katherine," chided her father, "I never before believed that a child of mine could talk such driveling nonsense."
From A Rock in the Baltic by Barr, Robert
Has Beverley been such a driveling fool as that?
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice
His pages now, stuff’d with false maudlin sentiment, Scarce please our whimpering-girls and driveling ensigns: P. But laughing Colman9 lives, a son of humour.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
