prate

You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019

He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2013

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011

‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

His Polonius prates on foolishly without losing his essential dignity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022

The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims.

From Time Magazine Archive

Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Styron himself prates endlessly about the sickness of the age. and Mason and Cass are obviously two of its sickest children.

From Time Magazine Archive

High the silver ibis flies—   Silver wings in silver skies;   In the sun the Saurian lies:   Comes the mockingbird and prates   To the boatman at the gates   Of the Ocklawaha.

From The Gentleman from Everywhere by James Henry Foss

Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he prated of his father's shrewdness, they nodded discreet approval; and at the mere mention of the loyal friend of Lord Cornbury, they bobbed like grass before a gale.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills

I felt that extra graves would have to be dug, because dreamers—like myself—had prated peace instead of helping to make our nation more secure.

From The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia by George A. (George Augustine) Taylor

How stupid we were before the war, how we prated of small revolts, how we sniggered over little jokes at religion and government.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos

Even the parrots heard so much of it that, in a short time, they prated nothing but French.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016

A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling