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

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

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

He who prates of Philistines is himself a Philistine.

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

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

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 Field, Eugene

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

With the feel of her heart beating against his own, he had strained her to his breast and prated of honor and duty!

From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Crawford, Will

Time was, O Holy One!" he cried, with wagging headpiece, "when 'twas I who prated of prudence.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016

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

For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

There is much unwarranted prating about the transcendency of 'experience' over 'content' in the curriculum .

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