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 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

“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

"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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

His mouth was drawn awry, his speech entirely inarticulate, his eye obscured by thick rheum, and his clothes were stained by the saliva that occasionally driveled from his lips.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

"I oughtn't to have driveled about that accident," he said.

From An Unpardonable Liar by Gilbert Parker

"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

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

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The conversation drivelled on in this way for a few miles, and finally turned into a heated discussion of the wine-list at the back of the menu.

From On the right of the British line by Gilbert Nobbs

“Yet you will say to His Majesty that I did suggest–yes, I do now–that they had better not––” His utterance drivelled to incoherency.

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

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

His pages now, stuff’d with false maudlin sentiment, Scarce please our whimpering-girls and driveling ensigns: P. But laughing Colman9 lives, a son of humour.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

"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

He whose broad forehead was circled with might; Sunk to a time-serving, driveling inanity— God! why not spare our loved country the sight?

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

"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

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

I so old, feeble, and drivelling as that?

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson