drivel
Example Sentences
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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 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
He had described a newspaper report that they had dropped by 30,000 as "drivel", but it was later confirmed the figure was correct.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023
“How could the big moguls in their plush counting houses high above Manhattan not read a guy who wrote that ‘on the TV screen pure drivel tends to drive out ordinary drivel’?”
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023
Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing drivel
There's No There There: Synonyms for "Empty"
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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