driveling

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

"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

Who but a driveling fanatic has thought of the necessity of protecting domestic animals from the cruelty of their owners?

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

"There are old men who marry young wives, and who pay the penalty by becoming martyrs to paralysis, softening of the brain, and driveling idiocy."

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey