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
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
Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims.
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
Gods! with what volubility of speech The table-hunter prates, like an old hag Collied with chimney-smutch! but ah beware!
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
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
This pieuse prated also after her manner, but we tempered her down a little.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
He prated as if himself a daimio, or a least a samurai or hatamoto!
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
This impost was very small—avowedly a "pepper-corn rent," retained to save the national honor, about which ministers prated so loudly.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
You, sir, have prated about our mutual wrongs and now you order me to be pacified.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016
There is much unwarranted prating about the transcendency of 'experience' over 'content' in the curriculum .
From Time Magazine Archive
A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things.
From Time Magazine Archive
It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness.
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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