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

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

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

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

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 Lewis Wingfield

The good man prated amiably to his Highness, thinking to please him, but the Duke's face grew dark.

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay

The old professors, for whom I always had a sneaking kindness, affected a sort of solitary grandeur, deported themselves with the conscious swagger of genius, read Tooke's Pantheon, and prated of the Heathen gods.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

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

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

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

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