drivel

While making space for such drivel, the museum ignores huge swaths of American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I guess the three exclamation points drive home the drivel.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

But some of the books I got were pure academic drivel, totally useless, that gave me no guidance or comfort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

He had described a newspaper report that they had dropped by 30,000 as "drivel", but it was later confirmed the figure was correct.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023

“Other kids read the same drivel and they don’t act this way.”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

"I was just part of this greater thing, or place, or force, or energy," he drivels, like a semi-articulate hippy.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011

He dilates his nostrils as much as possible; he drivels, saying to himself that there is enough there to last for a year, for ten years, for his whole life!

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

I weep when I note how she drivels;   I sigh o'er her fake philanthropies; I am pained when I see how she frivols,   Like a kitten, with serious topics.

From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Don Marquis

When charity drivels it ought to be turned off by justice!

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Pope, Jonson, Steevens and even Malone have made so many minute, technical changes in the Folio Plays of 1623, printed seven years after the death of Shakspere, that their presumptive elucidation often drivels into obscurity.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce

His mouth was drawn awry, his speech entirely inarticulate, his eye obscured by thick rheum, and his clothes were stained by the saliva that occasionally driveled from his lips.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

Then his reflections driveled off into stupor, and he sat on an empty keg with the conical crown of his old felt hat pointed forward, and his hands hanging limply between his knees.

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham

And the man driveled on in the dark, concerning himself for the most part with those interests which had occupied his life when he was a boy.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

He had driveled along respectably so far, he thought, but he had the sentimental longings of years, starved of expression, culminating in his heart.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

All the way up the mountain he driveled to me about asparagus on toast, a thing that his intelligence in life had skipped.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening

"I'm naturally anxious that it may be a son," he drivelled, "as there are so few male representatives of the old name now."

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

M. de Maurepas was growing feeble, the friends of M. Necker declared that he drivelled, and the latter already aspired to the aged minister's place.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black

There was no other word to express it; drivelled.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Dogs, dogs," drivelled old Horace Talbot, "Beachfield 's always talking about dogs.

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Yes, Yetta," he drivelled on, "I luv you already since a long while.

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

"I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear."

From Time Magazine Archive

Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take up that chronicle at middle age and see its weak and driveling character.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

Who but a driveling fanatic has thought of the necessity of protecting domestic animals from the cruelty of their owners?

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

Oh, how the stranger did snort at "that driveling trash."

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton

"What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!"

From Time Magazine Archive

“Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for weeks and weeks.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

“Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward. ‘Go up alonger this drivelling sick man,’ he says to his wife, ‘and Magwitch, lend her a hand, will you?’

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

It was mere drivelling nonsense that I talked out there in the shell-hole.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

But Lupin drivelling, wheeled about in a bath-chair . . . no!

From 813 by Maurice Leblanc