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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They paint a landscape, but nothing "prates of their whereabouts," while they were sitting on a tripod, with their paper on their knees, drawing—their breath.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

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

She prated of a great-uncle who married a niece of Lord Campbell—a cousin underscored in her records as Laird of Barula—the grand Makemies, the high-stepping Gabies, and the learned Gobies.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills

Lord Clare knew perfectly well, while he prated about peace, that he had wilfully hailed the silence of a cowed nation as a restoration of contented tranquillity.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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

Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called slanlus or "heal-all;" of unguents loathsomely compounded, but at greatest length and with fullest rapture of his vile phlebotomy.

From Doom Castle by Neil Munro

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

It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness.

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