drivel

As lab-coated figures played by Kate McKinnon and Geena Davis attempt to deliver exposition, the pals drown them out chit-chatting about drivel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

While making space for such drivel, the museum ignores huge swaths of American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Peter: Can Rangers please employ someone to edit the post-match interview drivel that spouts from the head coach?

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

Maybe the drivel would sate you for an hour, but something with genuine substance would taste and feel a whole lot better in the long run.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

Had he known what drivel filled his head, he would have shouted.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"I was just part of this greater thing, or place, or force, or energy," he drivels, like a semi-articulate hippy.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011

He desires to vomit; he drivels, and swallows his drivel, pretending to enjoy this little amusement.

From The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Benjamin R. Tucker

Pope, Jonson, Steevens and even Malone have made so many minute, technical changes in the Folio Plays of 1623, printed seven years after the death of Shakspere, that their presumptive elucidation often drivels into obscurity.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce

He wishes for 'a boat' to sail the deeps— Of ocean?—No, of air; and then he makes Another outcry for 'a little boat,' And drivels seas to set it well afloat.

From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

He dilates his nostrils as much as possible; he drivels, saying to himself that there is enough there to last for a year, for ten years, for his whole life!

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

All the way up the mountain he driveled to me about asparagus on toast, a thing that his intelligence in life had skipped.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening

Then his reflections driveled off into stupor, and he sat on an empty keg with the conical crown of his old felt hat pointed forward, and his hands hanging limply between his knees.

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham

The very horses had caught the inspiration of the moment, champing bits in their effort to forge to the front rank, while the blood-stained slaver coated many breasts or driveled from our boots.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams

So Mrs. Finch driveled mildly on, in her large loose untidy handwriting, to the bottom of the third page.

From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

A painfully homely face with tears running from the closed eyes, with an open mouth that driveled and drooled.

From The Cost by David Graham Phillips

There are multitudes of cases in which, when too great a weight has been crowded on the delicate organism through which thoughts move, its balance has been upset, and it has drivelled into idiocy.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

Dogs, dogs," drivelled old Horace Talbot, "Beachfield 's always talking about dogs.

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

There was no other word to express it; drivelled.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Yes, Yetta," he drivelled on, "I luv you already since a long while.

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

M. de Maurepas was growing feeble, the friends of M. Necker declared that he drivelled, and the latter already aspired to the aged minister's place.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black

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

Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His mind fails; he sits in the chimney corner driveling about the horrible winters they used to have when you could curse a daughter out almost any day in the week.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

One would not call it impudent, because it is so silly—it is the driveling of a fool.

From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair

"What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!"

From Time Magazine Archive

“Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward. ‘Go up alonger this drivelling sick man,’ he says to his wife, ‘and Magwitch, lend her a hand, will you?’

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for weeks and weeks.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

It was mere drivelling nonsense that I talked out there in the shell-hole.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

She was absolutely heart-whole—a certain intuition told him this, whereas he—he found himself drivelling into a state bordering on idiotcy.

From A Life For a Love A Novel by L. T. Meade