driveling
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
He felt that he was giving up life and its every hope, but the fear of madness, or driveling idiocy, was worse than this.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
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 Elliott, E. N.
