prate
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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
He prates of duty and discipline and chides Mrs. Alving on the libertarian tenor of the books she reads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you smile because a trembling old man feasts his failing eyes on a fair woman's face and prates of love and flowers and beauty?
From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart
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
Her father prated of only one offense, her mother’s sin.
From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt
The good man prated amiably to his Highness, thinking to please him, but the Duke's face grew dark.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
To some among the metropolitan bankers who in after years prated so loudly of their patriotism and financial sagacity, it brought to view only the danger of curtailed profits.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
He saw that the tendency of the times was in the direction of literature; schools of philosophy were springing up on every side, logic and poetry were prated in every household.
From Second Book of Tales by Eugene Field
As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016
Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is much unwarranted prating about the transcendency of 'experience' over 'content' in the curriculum .
From Time Magazine Archive
They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.'
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
Vocabulary lists containing prate
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tempest
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