- present participle of drivel.
driveling
Example Sentences
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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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Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.
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He squatted with his palms together and was a driveling idiot.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Wilson, Harry Leon
But let not the reader suppose that he was either a superannuated coxcomb or a driveling dotard.
From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by Thompson, George