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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

"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

That might be worthwhile, if it were not just blather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Still, given the out-of-the-box means by which "Andor" augments what we know about "Star Wars," returning to familiar digital explosions, glow-stick fencing matches and earnest blather about searching one's feelings feels like a regression.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023

Nobody asked you to talk, said Philomena.You done enough damage with your blather, so shut your yap.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

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

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

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

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

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

There was one Canadian member of my clique, who always blathered on and on about how her parents had taken the appropriate legal channels to move to the United States.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

Anyway, out went the trivia and in came Malkin and Frazier blathering about how excited they are for a second season of “Adolescence” that Netflix has yet to confirm.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2020

We gave ye a warning to stop the blathering but ye wouldn’t.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt




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