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

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

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 Seton, Ernest Thompson

"Certainly," said Johnson Boller, without thought and solely because Anthony's precise driveling interested him a little more than the affair of the ring.

From In And Out by Franklin, Edgar, [pseud.]

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 Comfort, William Wistar