- present participle of drivel.
driveling
Example Sentences
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"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
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Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.
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"Now, what on earth are you driving at—-or driveling at?" asked Dick Prescott, suspiciously, while the other partners remained wonderingly, eagerly silent.
From The High School Freshmen Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Are we a generation of driveling, sniveling, degraded slaves?
From The Struggle for Missouri by John McElroy
And yet——" "Stop driveling," Tish said sharply, "and tie259 up this general or whatever he is.
From More Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart