prate

You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019

He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2013

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011

‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

His Polonius prates on foolishly without losing his essential dignity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022

He prates of duty and discipline and chides Mrs. Alving on the libertarian tenor of the books she reads.

From Time Magazine Archive

The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims.

From Time Magazine Archive

Styron himself prates endlessly about the sickness of the age. and Mason and Cass are obviously two of its sickest children.

From Time Magazine Archive

He prates in spite of all impediment, While none believes that what he said he meant; Puts in his finger and his thumb To grope for words, and out they come.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Time was, O Holy One!" he cried, with wagging headpiece, "when 'twas I who prated of prudence.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

He prated as if himself a daimio, or a least a samurai or hatamoto!

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

How stupid we were before the war, how we prated of small revolts, how we sniggered over little jokes at religion and government.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John

When he got a bit of sunshine, the old lazarone basked in it; he prated about his own affairs and past splendor, and all the lords, generals, and lord-lieutenants he had ever known.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016

For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

There is much unwarranted prating about the transcendency of 'experience' over 'content' in the curriculum .

From Time Magazine Archive

A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things.

From Time Magazine Archive

“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling