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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

All three leads croon along with these pure emotions, each one believing they’ve grown to know each other, either through their own lyrics or Charles’ nonstop blather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

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

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

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

He mutes his speakerphone and cracks wise as a colleague blathers on.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2011

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

No, he wanted to read about it on Twitter, one factual post taking a blow torch to all the blathering opinions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

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

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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