driveling
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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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Next she dealt with Sancho, whom Pascherette had lured back to the woman's mercy; and Sancho emerged from Dolores's presence a driveling imbecile.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward
Wearied with the monotony of fashionable dissipation and the driveling idiocy of flirtations, women were glad to hear a few sensible, wholesome truths.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Are we a generation of driveling, sniveling, degraded slaves?
From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John