drivel

Example Sentences

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I guess the three exclamation points drive home the drivel.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

It was "20 tracks of instrumental drivel", she says.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

But some of the books I got were pure academic drivel, totally useless, that gave me no guidance or comfort.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2024

“How could the big moguls in their plush counting houses high above Manhattan not read a guy who wrote that ‘on the TV screen pure drivel tends to drive out ordinary drivel’?”

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos