twaddle
noun
trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
twaddler
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a word derived from
twaddle.
Example Sentences
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The Regent was continually importuned about it; but all in vain, until the Duke de St. Simon, who, with all his ability, was something of a twaddler, undertook the weighty business.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
"Let him alone!" replied Malicorne, brutally; "don't you see the respectable old twaddler is not right in his nonsense-box?"
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
Sah-luma! twaddler Sah-luma! what a brain box is thine!
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
Every teacher or twaddler who denies it or suppresses it, is an enemy of life.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw
And so there commenced a long and ludicrous controversy—dishonourable to Settle much; to Rochester and Dryden more—between a mere insolent twaddler and a man of real and transcendent genius.
From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
