twaddle
noun
trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
twaddler
-
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
If you mix me up with that mawkish theoretical twaddler you simply prove that you know nothing of my manuscript, though it has been in your hands.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sah-luma! twaddler Sah-luma! what a brain box is thine!
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
"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
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
