driveling

Example Sentences

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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

But let not the reader suppose that he was either a superannuated coxcomb or a driveling dotard.

From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by Thompson, George

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

He arose on his haunches and faced the horsemen, revealing his fangs, while his breast was covered with tiny icicles, caused by the driveling slaver during the night's run.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy