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

“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

Tate Britain came in for criticism for its labelling of a Hogarth show in 2021, which Sunday Times critic Waldemar Januszczak described as "wokeish drivel".

From BBC • May 23, 2023

Or drivel In other words, what kind of verb goes with a phrase like one of the, one of those, or one of these?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner