(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.
Drudge
Definition:
(v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
(v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
(n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky.
(2) Weeks after Rove’s comments, a former Drudge Report editor, Joseph Curl, published a column at the Washington Times demanding Clinton’s health records be made public.
(3) While drudging away in a dry cleaners, Tommo has a brainwave: by half-inching various outfits, he can test-drive possible vocations while also charming the ladies.
(4) The 40-minute video – released in a carefully choreographed operation between Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson, Fox News host Sean Hannity and Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge – was shot in Virginia in June 2007 as Obama was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
(5) If you didn't like the focus on birds and beer, you were easily classed as a frump and a drudge.
(6) The ribbing was all the more caustic given Drudge's status as the Clintons' historic bête noire – it was the Drudge Report that broke the Monica Lewinsky story in 1998.
(7) MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) Curious tape dropping tonight.
(8) Romney refers multiple times – three or four in an appearance that lasted as many minutes – to the current top story on the Drudge report, about an audio tape from 1998 in which Barack Obama says he favors some redistribution of wealth.
(9) That hasn’t stopped conservative websites like the Drudge Report from declaring “IT BEGINS” or Breitbart News from blaring From ‘Dead Broke’ to $$$,$$$,$$$: Clinton Cash ‘Most Anticipated and Feared Book of Presidential Cycle’.
(10) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
(11) The Drudge Report published what appeared to be an outline of Ailes’s potential exit package, which included a $40m payoff.
(12) Carlson's view, which has been echoed now by Drudge, and much of the Fox line-up , is that this dangerously, insidiously, and rudely sets black Americans against white Americans.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.05pm BST To begin with a sideshow: if you haven't been following the pitiful exertions of Matt Drudge and Tucker Carlson to resurrect the Jeremiah Wright controversy, we applaud and admire you.
(14) The drudge of interplanetary travel has emerged from research on six men who joined the longest simulated space mission ever : a 17-month round trip to the red planet in a pretend spaceship housed at a Moscow industrial estate.
(15) As does Drudge's willingness to troll his base follower-ship.
(16) Why drudge up abuse allegations several decades later?
(17) The Drudge Report, a powerful news aggregator popular with conservatives, linked to the Yucatan Times article with some commenters hailed the tourists for avenging alleged Mexican loutishness in the US.
(18) Matt Drudge mischievously wondered in a tweet whether the People magazine cover shows her holding a walking frame (she is in fact leaning on a patio chair) – a play on the fact that she would be 69 at her inauguration, were she to run and win in 2016.
(19) The fact that the poll was created by and appeared on the homepage of drudgereport.com means it was probably more of a representation of Drudge readers than the country as a whole.
(20) By denying ourselves access to our own inner worlds, we are stopping up the well of our imagination, that which raises us above the drudge and grind of mere survival, that which makes us human.