driveling
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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"Katherine," chided her father, "I never before believed that a child of mine could talk such driveling nonsense."
From A Rock in the Baltic by Barr, Robert
Are we a generation of driveling, sniveling, degraded slaves?
From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John
Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor