driveling
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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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"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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Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
He squatted with his palms together and was a driveling idiot.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
One would not call it impudent, because it is so silly—it is the driveling of a fool.
From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Sinclair, Upton