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

"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

Thou hast seen thy long successor rise and reign and fall, succeeded in its turn by the brilliant capital that now sends hither its subjects to scoff at thy driveling old age.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

Take up that chronicle at middle age and see its weak and driveling character.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John

Besides, even in the exuberance of his feelings, he was apparently, not quite so royally driveling, as on the occasion of his first outbreak.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley