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

Marriages of love become rarer year after year, while those of convenience are proportionately on the increase… and we prate of the holy marriage covenant!”

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2014

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

‘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

An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He prates in spite of all impediment, While none believes that what he said he meant; Puts in his finger and his thumb To grope for words, and out they come.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

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

Indeed this is an age in which honour is prated of most by those who practise it least.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson

It was an excellent match; Clara had shown herself a woman of determination, superior to the foolish girls who prated of love and cottages.

From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various

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 Taylor, George A. (George Augustine)

You, sir, have prated about our mutual wrongs and now you order me to be pacified.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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