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blather

[blath-er] / ˈblæð ər /
NOUN
foolish talk
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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In fact, I expected the outcome since about day seven, including China’s role in bringing about a settlement, though minus any blather on my part about a victory for the mullahs.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

How do you think she feels watching RFK Jr. blather on about vaccines?

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2025

"All this blather about Mr Adams being a member of the army council is not something you have to decide," he told the jury.

From BBC May 7, 2025

Why not just ignore her and carry on with his usual blather about shower heads and windmills and tales of his former glory?

From Salon Jan. 26, 2024

They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

If she wants to call witnesses to rebut specific lies he blathers, she can.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2021

“One of the things that almost every longtime survivor I know has commented on is how eerie it is to see them up there smiling and nodding while this fool blathers on,” he says.

From The Guardian Mar. 22, 2020

First, he sees through the pontification of the hall’s snooty administrator, who blathers on about the philanthropic purpose of wealth.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2016

He blathers on about Picasso as a rogue sociopath, a narcissist out to make someone suffer, maybe his mom or his dad or himself or the whole world.

From Seattle Times Oct. 17, 2012

Heather paints her nails on her desk blotter and blathers.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

For now, though, Koepka is ascendant, and for all the reasons I've blathered on about for the last four hours, what he's accomplished in the past two years is more than just remarkable—it's singular.

From Golf Digest May 19, 2019

On television, they gave stumbling advice or blathered into obnoxious temper tantrums or flaunted their cosmic ineptitude at the flames of the charcoal grill.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2016

Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.

From Slate Feb. 1, 2015

"I have expressed to them apologies and I understand they are not happy and that people are criticising," blathered Blatter, who had had nothing but mockery for the Irish.

From The Guardian Jun. 29, 2010

He caught himself before he blathered on anymore.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

I called A&W Restaurants’ headquarters in Lexington, Ky. I reached the chairman, Kevin Bazner, 71, and started blathering on about Camp Golden Eagle and the stand on Highway 51.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

I thought of how Sam Donaldson or, God forbid, Helen Thomas, would have reacted to such blathering and I knew once again that the other problem in Washington is us — the press.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2022

“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.

From New York Times Nov. 22, 2021

Then, when he’s wrong, which is often enough, we have to hear him blathering apologies and falling all over himself.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2020

She’s watching the TV, where a news anchor is blathering about the “flow crisis.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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