What's the difference between blah and drivel?

Blah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
  • (2) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (3) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
  • (4) but during a very dark period of my life, tapes I made of Peter Green era Fleetwod Mac (the best blues player in the history of ever...) and Free (best band in history of blah blah...) virtually saved me from an early exit...." Katewashere : "My Dad bought me a walkman in 1984.
  • (5) So I could fret about the fact that my dog has a capsule wardrobe and worry about being a crazy dog lady and blah blah blah.
  • (6) Not from tax increases, says Mitt, and blahs along about how all those new jobs he's going to create will increase revenue.
  • (7) You could be run over tomorrow, blah, blah …" Oh, thank you, just before I drive across London to visit another chum.
  • (8) It contained blah about “smart cities” and equity funds, even a rupee-denominated bond.
  • (9) [Police say:] 'Oh, you know, loads of these cars get stolen, so we just need to check you are who you say you are, blah blah blah.'
  • (10) This contained a lot of false and frothy promises to “initiate an inclusive process of national debate …” blah, blah, blah.
  • (11) "Guardian readers are all like: 'Oh but you have to work for your money, blah blah blah and all that.'
  • (12) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
  • (13) He says: ‘Right, this club has just called me – blah-blah-blah.
  • (14) It was frightening at first, but she preferred it to being in a band, where 'You're not going to do anything unless you're onstage with your specific people and your lights and your songs and... blah .'
  • (15) All the cliches – not taking life for granted, blah, blah, blah.
  • (16) Semi-autobiographical in focus, the album was a dog of monumental proportions, weak songs failing to carry a catastrophically weak concept (girl from wrong side of the tracks makes it in the big, wide blah blah blah).
  • (17) How much more interesting and revealing this show would have been if all of the liberal blah-blah here and the Ivy League newsroom nebbishes had been replaced by more current conservative agitprop and rightwing message enforcers.
  • (18) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
  • (19) The latest jobs report had the unemployment rate at 7.7%, the lowest level since December 2008 but still blah, and inflation at 1.6.
  • (20) "I didn't fall for the trick of Jonathan, 'I had no shoes, blah, blah,' all that stuff he was saying when he was campaigning," Kuti said.

Drivel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
  • (v. i.) To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
  • (n.) Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
  • (n.) Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
  • (n.) A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
  • (n.) A servant; a drudge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 2010 manifesto , which Farage has called "drivel", called for taxi drivers to be required to wear uniforms, dress codes for the theatre and for the Circle line on London's underground to be made a circle again.
  • (2) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
  • (3) Suzanne Evans, the party policy chief, confirmed the U-turn as she set out how the manifesto would be a much more serious document than the 2010 one, which was later dismissed by Farage as nonsense and drivel.
  • (4) The authors compared nine manic patients exhibiting formal thought disorders (tangentiality, neologisms, drivelling, private use of words, and paraphasias) with 102 manic patients without these thought disorders and with 31 schizophrenic patients.
  • (5) Nigel Farage rightly dismissed Ukip's 2010 election manifesto as total drivel, then tried to distance himself from such nonsense as bringing in uniforms for taxi drivers, until it emerged he'd written the foreword.
  • (6) In 51 years working in the City of London rarely have I heard such drivel spoken by senior politicians, trade union leaders and fully paid-up members of the bleeding-heart club over the valuation of the Royal Mail's flotation .
  • (7) They are bolstered by nonsense economics and spun out by thinktanks endowed for the specific purpose of mainstreaming drivel through relentless repetition.
  • (8) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
  • (9) Who needs a programme in which no one believes, even one that its leader thinks is drivel, when preaching the language of betrayal brings a warm glow of recognition to a swath of the electorate.
  • (10) Despite sitting for 50 hours of taped interviews – scarcely credible, I know, given the drivel that follows – Julian decided there was no point in making himself look like an unstable, megalomaniac dickhead as his entire advance had been pocketed by his lawyers.
  • (11) By applying an intelligence-led model and working with our partner agencies across the border continuum,” this Matrix-induced drivel goes on, “we deliver effective border control over who and what has the right to enter or exit, and under what conditions.” Other than the weird licence such words give to find and punish evil, well, anywhere – hot spots of global people smuggling such as Flinders Lane, my pub, your cafe – the last two clauses, eerily echo John Howard’s infamous 2001 speech in which he declared: “But we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.” Only now, it seems they seem to want to decide a whole lot more about us all.
  • (12) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
  • (13) Daniel Taylor The hour before every England match when Arsenal's pitch-announcer, Paul Burrell, subjected us to all that boneheaded drivel – "think of 1966" and "are we ready?"
  • (14) Last week Farage had to confess that the party's 2010 manifesto was "drivel" , with its pledges to repaint trains in traditional colours, to bring back "proper dress" at the theatre and to investigate discrimination against white people at the BBC.
  • (15) Nigel Farage disowned it (“drivel”) and the man who wrote it has long since rejoined the Tory party.
  • (16) So much of Wolf's work is utter drivel – and I say this as someone in possession of the sacred feminine "force".
  • (17) On the idiocy, waste and vacuous drivel that constitutes “the case for Trident”, he has been right.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nigel Farage's attempt to distance himself from the "drivel" and "nonsense" in Ukip's policy documents at the last election was undermined on Friday after it emerged he wrote the foreword to the party's manifesto and helped to launch it at an event in London.
  • (19) The series of general frequency shows: driveling 67.9%, desultory thinking 57.3%, withdrawal, broadcasting, insertion 32.7%, loosening of association, gaps, derailment 28.9%, blocking 16.5%, transitoriness, movielike thinking, double-sense thinking 12.0%.
  • (20) Everyone can see it for the climate denier drivel it is.