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

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

He prates of duty and discipline and chides Mrs. Alving on the libertarian tenor of the books she reads.

From Time Magazine Archive

A nightingale hid in the leaues there stood The muse and harmeles Syren of the wood;204 Shee snatcht ye soundes and with an echo prates: What his hand playde her voice reiterates.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

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

How stupid we were before the war, how we prated of small revolts, how we sniggered over little jokes at religion and government.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos

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

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

Even the weakest felt the influence; the fool who had prated of the social contract and the rights of man was as loud as any.

From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016

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

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