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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He who prates of Philistines is himself a Philistine.

From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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

So had they prated Of things created, An hour before, in her Sunday-school.

From To Your Dog and To My Dog by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt

He prated of its mouldering beauties often, forgetting that it was lauded by his townsmen long before the Knickerbockers entered its portals.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills

He never prated about goodness, but was unaffectedly good and sunny-hearted as long as he lived.

From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent

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