driveling
- present participle of drivel.
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
"Katherine," chided her father, "I never before believed that a child of mine could talk such driveling nonsense."
From A Rock in the Baltic by Barr, Robert
I presume he 46 is honest in this opinion, and no doubt regards Bruno, Spinoza and Humboldt as driveling imbeciles.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
