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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

Rosy and Gosling were pugnaciously assertive: their future course of action would be unaffected by their fifty-mile excursion into adolescent blather.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

From Salon Jul. 27, 2021

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

When an audience member responds with a giggling fit or blathers on, the act meanders.

From New York Times Sep. 5, 2012

The Portuguese, meanwhile, hardly dare express hope in their striker, O Jogo merely announcing what is at stake by headlining "Bento banks on Postiga", while A Bola blathers about a titanic battle with Vikings.

From The Guardian Jun. 13, 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

Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.

From Slate Feb. 1, 2015

The Holmesdale captain, Mark Epps, rejected a request to delay the start – "This isn't friendly schoolboy cricket," he blathered, hugging his Little Book of Mental Disintegration.

From The Guardian Jul. 9, 2011

I doubt it, but CNN blathered on in an effort to change my mind.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2010

Pushing our chairs back, we both grabbed our bonnets, blathered something to Mrs. Drysdale about getting some fresh air, and skittered out the back door.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

And don’t be surprised if I think you’re a blathering chucklehead.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 5, 2025

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

From New York Times Nov. 22, 2021

His blathering on the subject was incoherent as always.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2021

This was just blathering with no particular expectation of a response.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2020

“Some of us have work to do, and it doesn’t involve blathering about like bumpkins.”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia




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