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He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller."

From Time Magazine Archive

Is not even Pater being thrust into a second grave as an indolent driveller without judgment?

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert

It was marvellous how instantaneously he subsided into the superannuated driveller who was to bear away the bell from Old Parr and all the Emperor Alexander's far-sought fossils.

From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill

Really, though, Monsignor, I’m afraid you’ll think me a doting sort of a driveller on that subject.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

If Pepys had written his Diary for publication he would have been left to oblivion as a driveller.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie