dribbling

Example Sentences

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Deprived of its influence, a painter could go off the rails and become a fribbling hack, a "strappazone," he wrote in Paris, "like all the others who are here."

From Time Magazine Archive

Humiliated by these reverses, with their prestige diminished and threatened with an ignominious fall, the fribbling authors of the war expected to save everything by substituting another chief for Wullenweber.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

In this tract we find no unmeaning gallant fribbling, but the solemn language of one who had death and judgment before his face.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John