maundering
Example Sentences
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Urgent financial woes are replaced by maundering romantic dramas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
Hughes ran efficient and productive meetings, with a low tolerance for maundering or side conversation, but he was given pause by the gravity of the occasion.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
Dirda originally described the essays, with characteristic deprecation, as “just me, maundering on about this and that, usually with a literary theme lurking somewhere.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2015
I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
