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

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

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

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

Boltt, a tall, thin, stooping man, with peering eyes, had discovered "the human note" of which Gilbert's editor prated continually.

From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

Inspiration—and I had prated about inspiration often enough; inspiration only became inspiration when it was recognised as such.

From The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

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

And it's I," he went on in a bitter self-scorn, "who have prated of honor, and the conduct of gentlemen, who have made a beast of myself before the best woman who ever lived!

From Nancy Stair A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

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

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

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