drivel

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

It's just absolute drivel every time Martin opens his mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

But quashing that speculation would likely require content more scintillating than this drivel.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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

Listening to Nate Crosby’s drivel was almost as bad as enduring potshots from Morris Sampson.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

"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

The dog that has genuine rabies grows sullen, it hides in comers, and it snaps at everything presented to it A sticky, frothy mucus drivels from its mouth and its eyes become red.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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

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

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

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

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

And the man driveled on in the dark, concerning himself for the most part with those interests which had occupied his life when he was a boy.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

"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

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

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

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

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 George W. Orton

"Now, what on earth are you driving at—-or driveling at?" asked Dick Prescott, suspiciously, while the other partners remained wonderingly, eagerly silent.

From The High School Freshmen Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

I told him last night not to make a driveling idiot of himself.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

"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

“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

Dean Worcester, who copies from Foreman’s book some of the most drivelling paragraphs, lays particular stress upon this fact.

From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair