Thesaurus / drivel
FEEDBACKHow to use drivel in a sentence
In modern times responding to such drivel somehow validates the claim.
CURT SCHILLING WANTS OFF THE HALL OF FAME BALLOT. VOTERS SAID THAT’S NOT UP TO HIM.CINDY BOREN, DES BIELERJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBut Canon Drivel's daughter did not deign to answer, she merely rang for prayers.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHad Teufelsdrockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon-meat?
SARTOR RESARTUSTHOMAS CARLYLEIf you have a heart, sooner or later you get into a state of drivel about somebody, who probably doesn't drivel about you.
DODO'S DAUGHTERE. F. BENSONIt can't be worse than going about with you and listening while you crow and drivel about her, that's one comfort!
THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONSF. ANSTEY"Stow that drivel, cookie," growled a voice which I recognized as belonging to the older Fleming.
THE PIRATE OF PANAMAWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINETalfourd and the Broughs took more licence in this latter respect, but they never sank into drivel.
A BOOK OF BURLESQUEWILLAM DAVENPORT ADAMSYou pay too much attention to such insipid drivel in even mentioning it.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESSuch was Barty's humor, as a boy—mere drivel—but of such a kind that even his butts were fond of him.
THE MARTIANGEORGE DU MAURIERIts trunk weeps tears of resin, which trail along in drivel, then change to heavy, creeping flame.
BARKS AND PURRSCOLETTE WILLY, AKA COLETTEWORDS RELATED TO DRIVEL
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- hot air
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- ludicrousness
- madness
- mumbo jumbo
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- soft soap
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
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