drivel

As lab-coated figures played by Kate McKinnon and Geena Davis attempt to deliver exposition, the pals drown them out chit-chatting about drivel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

While making space for such drivel, the museum ignores huge swaths of American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The horror space does not necessarily demand ingenuity; there’s an audience for even the worst drivel at the bottom of the barrel.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2025

But at the other end of the scale, the Daily Express's one-star critique called it "absolute drivel" and described Holland as "a charisma free zone".

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

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

"I was just part of this greater thing, or place, or force, or energy," he drivels, like a semi-articulate hippy.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011

He wishes for 'a boat' to sail the deeps— Of ocean?—No, of air; and then he makes Another outcry for 'a little boat,' And drivels seas to set it well afloat.

From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

When charity drivels it ought to be turned off by justice!

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Pope, Jonson, Steevens and even Malone have made so many minute, technical changes in the Folio Plays of 1623, printed seven years after the death of Shakspere, that their presumptive elucidation often drivels into obscurity.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce

I weep when I note how she drivels;   I sigh o'er her fake philanthropies; I am pained when I see how she frivols,   Like a kitten, with serious topics.

From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Don Marquis

So Mrs. Finch driveled mildly on, in her large loose untidy handwriting, to the bottom of the third page.

From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

Well, he driveled along for a while, talking the awfulest bosh; and pretty soon he asked me if I was fond of mock-turtle soup.

From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

A painfully homely face with tears running from the closed eyes, with an open mouth that driveled and drooled.

From The Cost by David Graham Phillips

The very horses had caught the inspiration of the moment, champing bits in their effort to forge to the front rank, while the blood-stained slaver coated many breasts or driveled from our boots.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams

And the man driveled on in the dark, concerning himself for the most part with those interests which had occupied his life when he was a boy.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

There was no other word to express it; drivelled.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

There are multitudes of cases in which, when too great a weight has been crowded on the delicate organism through which thoughts move, its balance has been upset, and it has drivelled into idiocy.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

“Yet you will say to His Majesty that I did suggest–yes, I do now–that they had better not––” His utterance drivelled to incoherency.

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

The conversation drivelled on in this way for a few miles, and finally turned into a heated discussion of the wine-list at the back of the menu.

From On the right of the British line by Gilbert Nobbs

Yes, Yetta," he drivelled on, "I luv you already since a long while.

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

"I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear."

From Time Magazine Archive

Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He felt that he was giving up life and its every hope, but the fear of madness, or driveling idiocy, was worse than this.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort

Oh, how the stranger did snort at "that driveling trash."

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton

Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!"

From Time Magazine Archive

“Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for weeks and weeks.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

“Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward. ‘Go up alonger this drivelling sick man,’ he says to his wife, ‘and Magwitch, lend her a hand, will you?’

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

It was mere drivelling nonsense that I talked out there in the shell-hole.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

What drivelling fools some men make of themselves!

From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Marie Saltus