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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The man prates about that whipper-snapper of a gunner nearly as much as about my splendid firing.

From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein

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

People said that such an example of conjugal felicity was not often seen in those degenerate days, for even then they prated of the golden age of their grandfathers, lamenting their own decadence....

From Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

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

I felt that extra graves would have to be dug, because dreamers—like myself—had prated peace instead of helping to make our nation more secure.

From The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia by George A. (George Augustine) Taylor

Not one inch should he push her from her avowed purpose––not though all the strangers in the world came to Lost Valley and prated of blood-guilt.

From Tharon of Lost Valley by Frank Tenney Johnson

As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016

Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization.

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

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