maundering

Example Sentences

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Urgent financial woes are replaced by maundering romantic dramas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019

Loewe recounts his tales in maundering fashion, spurred on by an interlocutor, a woman whose identity is gradually revealed.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

The review said, “Surely, Joan of Arc, that maundering Maid of Orleans, falls solidly into the category of fascinating, exemplary misfit.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2017

We put up a small handwritten notice at the newspaper office and made sure that old Backy Medlin, the gin’s most maundering gossip, knew what we were looking for.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly