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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

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

After all the idealistic blather on both sides, it boils down to TV money, and Florida State sold its soul to that devil long, long ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 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

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

Early on in her 6 Music career, on weekday afternoons, Matthews was almost impossible to listen to: her mic technique was terrible, she ummed and aahed and dithered and blathered.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013

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

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

His blathering on the subject was incoherent as always.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2021

Liz declared herself my “public relations” manager for my chicken coops, and then started blathering on about the “urban chicken market” and the need for the coops to have a cool paint job.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz


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