prate
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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
An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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 Weyman, Stanley John
Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called slanlus or "heal-all;" of unguents loathsomely compounded, but at greatest length and with fullest rapture of his vile phlebotomy.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
So had they prated Of things created, An hour before, in her Sunday-school.
From To Your Dog and To My Dog by Kinnicutt, Lincoln Newton
He prated of tying together the ravelled strands of the confederacy.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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
There is much unwarranted prating about the transcendency of 'experience' over 'content' in the curriculum .
From Time Magazine Archive
A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things.
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
Vocabulary lists containing prate
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act II
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The Tempest
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