Example Sentences

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"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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

He squatted with his palms together and was a driveling idiot.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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 Brann, William Cowper