prate
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You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019
He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
Marriages of love become rarer year after year, while those of convenience are proportionately on the increase… and we prate of the holy marriage covenant!”
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2014
This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2013
‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
His Polonius prates on foolishly without losing his essential dignity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A woman, Susan—a woman who dresses in black, and prates of a misunderstanding."
From Barnaby A Novel by R. Ramsay
Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He prated of tying together the ravelled strands of the confederacy.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
The word Interpreter is derived from Inter-prater, for one that prated betwixt two that spoke several languages.
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway
It was an excellent match; Clara had shown herself a woman of determination, superior to the foolish girls who prated of love and cottages.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
Her father prated of only one offense, her mother’s sin.
From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt
As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016
As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles.
From Time Magazine Archive
A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.'
From Time Magazine Archive
“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing prate
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tempest
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