drivel

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

But at the other end of the scale, the Daily Express's one-star critique called it "absolute drivel" and described Holland as "a charisma free zone".

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

But some of the books I got were pure academic drivel, totally useless, that gave me no guidance or comfort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

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

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

When charity drivels it ought to be turned off by justice!

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

I weep when I note how she drivels;   I sigh o'er her fake philanthropies; I am pained when I see how she frivols,   Like a kitten, with serious topics.

From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Don Marquis

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 had driveled along respectably so far, he thought, but he had the sentimental longings of years, starved of expression, culminating in his heart.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

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

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

Well, he driveled along for a while, talking the awfulest bosh; and pretty soon he asked me if I was fond of mock-turtle soup.

From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

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

"I'm naturally anxious that it may be a son," he drivelled, "as there are so few male representatives of the old name now."

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

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

There was no other word to express it; drivelled.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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

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

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"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

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

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 Aylward Edward Dingle

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 William Wistar Comfort

Let the people of this city offer a fat purse for the man who can read the editorial page of the Dallas News thirty days in succession without degenerating into a driveling idiot.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

“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

“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

You purple poultice-puncher; you hopeless, helpless, herring-gutted hound; you dropsical drink-water; you drunken, drivelling dope-dodger; you mouldy, mossy-toothed, mealy-mouthed maggot; you squinny-faced, squittering, squint-eyed squab, you—what have you got to say for yourself? 

From Cupid in Africa by P. C. Wren