driveling
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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
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"I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear."
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He lowered his eyes—and remained motionless, gasping for breath, dazed, with fixed eyes, fairly driveling with terror.
From Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories by Hawthorne, Julian
He felt that he was giving up life and its every hope, but the fear of madness, or driveling idiocy, was worse than this.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
Next she dealt with Sancho, whom Pascherette had lured back to the woman's mercy; and Sancho emerged from Dolores's presence a driveling imbecile.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward