drivel

As lab-coated figures played by Kate McKinnon and Geena Davis attempt to deliver exposition, the pals drown them out chit-chatting about drivel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

It was "20 tracks of instrumental drivel", she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

From An Unpardonable Liar by Gilbert Parker

Then his reflections driveled off into stupor, and he sat on an empty keg with the conical crown of his old felt hat pointed forward, and his hands hanging limply between his knees.

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham

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

All the way up the mountain he driveled to me about asparagus on toast, a thing that his intelligence in life had skipped.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening

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

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

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

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

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

There was no other word to express it; drivelled.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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

When teething is about it may be known by the spittle constantly driveling from the mouth and wetting the frock.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

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

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 George Thompson

"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

Another day—a whole precious day devoured by your drivelling nonsense!

From The Ghetto A Drama in Four Acts by Herman Heijermans