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blather

[blath-er] / ˈblæð ər /
NOUN
foolish talk
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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

They may be cutting back on how much he can blather on-air, but in the end, that's mainly to his benefit.

From Salon Oct. 24, 2023

For one thing, we couldn’t understand a word they were saying, since it was all private jokes and wealthy early-adopter sub-vuvv prep-school-blazer blather.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

Actually, these methods came from medicine .. which, contrary to most WashDC blathers, is as much soft-science as hard-science.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2018

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

Often blathered about on the London soul scene is Mr Fine Wine from New Jersey radio station WFMU.

From The Guardian Jun. 23, 2010

He caught himself before he blathered on anymore.

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

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

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 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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