drivel

Example Sentences

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But quashing that speculation would likely require content more scintillating than this drivel.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 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

He had described a newspaper report that they had dropped by 30,000 as "drivel", but it was later confirmed the figure was correct.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

“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

Beastly Thibaut is here with another man today, hence I am writing like a demon, any old drivel, so as not to draw attention to myself.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein