drivel

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

It was "20 tracks of instrumental drivel", she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

The horror space does not necessarily demand ingenuity; there’s an audience for even the worst drivel at the bottom of the barrel.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 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

Had he known what drivel filled his head, he would have shouted.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"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

The dog that has genuine rabies grows sullen, it hides in comers, and it snaps at everything presented to it A sticky, frothy mucus drivels from its mouth and its eyes become red.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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

He wishes for 'a boat' to sail the deeps— Of ocean?—No, of air; and then he makes Another outcry for 'a little boat,' And drivels seas to set it well afloat.

From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

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

"I oughtn't to have driveled about that accident," he said.

From An Unpardonable Liar by Gilbert Parker

So Mrs. Finch driveled mildly on, in her large loose untidy handwriting, to the bottom of the third page.

From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

The conversation drivelled on in this way for a few miles, and finally turned into a heated discussion of the wine-list at the back of the menu.

From On the right of the British line by Gilbert Nobbs

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

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

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

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

“Yet you will say to His Majesty that I did suggest–yes, I do now–that they had better not––” His utterance drivelled to incoherency.

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

"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

Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Let the people of this city offer a fat purse for the man who can read the editorial page of the Dallas News thirty days in succession without degenerating into a driveling idiot.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

He arose on his haunches and faced the horsemen, revealing his fangs, while his breast was covered with tiny icicles, caused by the driveling slaver during the night's run.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

“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

“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

Bully Bryant, catching Michael's eye, burst across Paul's drivelling with a hearty guffaw.

From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard