twaddle

He told the court he was "just talking twaddle" and was writing things down as he thought them.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Even if they lose this case—and I think they probably will—they’ll still have gotten away with a whole lot of twaddle that should have landed them in hot water.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023

To "The View," McCain was more than a spout of parbaked twaddle delivered with tell-it-like-it-is confidence.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2021

Shaw’s lively, unfailingly articulate mind is especially welcome at a time when public debate has regressed to Twitter twaddle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2018

School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

“A gift for all of us to enjoy,” The Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner twaddled this week.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013

And, after weeping the usual quantity, he twaddled, and, after twaddling, he became as pacific as ever, for he went to sleep in his chair.

From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

All that day, morning, afternoon, and evening, I laboured or twaddled at arithmetic with Mr. Howse.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

He hummed a blithe San Salvador Opera Company tune; he grinned, smirked, bowed, pirouetted, twiddled, twaddled, twisted, and tooralooed.

From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by O. Henry

And he twaddled of VON MOLTKE, and his German Army Corps; "Flattering the tax-payers' vanity," and much similar insanity, In a style that lacked urbanity, till the thing became a bore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

If Jules existed in my real life, I'd have started screening calls to avoid her twaddling on months ago.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010

You feel that their edgy suburban twaddling may be the way Hollywood heavies really behave in private.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is seated at a table with three other men, twaddling a fat cigar between the finger and thumb of one hand and holding five fanned cards in the other.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The countess of Roland, and her niece Ulrica; so that's your final answer from the little twaddling old butler.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

Most of them seem to be twaddling stuff, but the first is in a different style—'The Ancient Mariner' is the title.

From Adam Bede by George Eliot