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

Maybe taking a picture is a better solution, especially for more maundering passages that require much typing?

From Washington Post • May 4, 2016

We put up a small handwritten notice at the newspaper office and made sure that old Backy Medlin, the gin’s most maundering gossip, knew what we were looking for.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly