driveling

Example Sentences

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Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear."

From Time Magazine Archive

Joe became merely a driveling maniac, urged along by an143 insane desire to make progress.

From Bob Hunt in Canada by Orton, George W.

He whose broad forehead was circled with might; Sunk to a time-serving, driveling inanity— God! why not spare our loved country the sight?

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Once a bright boy, kind, affectionate, active, intelligent, the pride of a loving mother and the hope of a doting father, his mind had sunken to driveling idiocy.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey