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Definition

worthless talk or information

More rarely, drivel may reference drool (saliva dribbled from the mouth).

Too much television is brain-rotting drivel.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest.
Raymond Chandler
I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or manufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel.
Christine Anderson
We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
Mark Twain -- The Innocents Abroad
With six eyes he was weeping, and over three chins trickled the tears and bloody drivel.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
"What I hate is this idiotic drivel about 'I am God—I am man—I ride the winds—I look through the smoke—I am the life sense.'
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Circles, chevrons, arrows, birds, mucho mystical drivel, and I was trying to absorb it all.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
'Don't drivel,' said Peter.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
Did anyone ever hear such drivel?
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
And then he added, "It seems to me you're talking drivel, that you're a little muddleheaded.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Charles: if you must drivel, drivel like a grown-up man and not like a schoolboy.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
My writing's all mixed up, I'm jumping from one thing to another, and sometimes I seriously doubt whether anyone will ever be interested in this drivel.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
After a while he took out his mobile and called Tony Scala, a freelance journalist who made a living writing drivel for men's magazines.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
Mrs. Brown, unbelievably, was more inefficient than I was in compiling the drivel and trivia demanded by the higher administrators.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
I have an extremely low tolerance for drivel.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
It was mostly drivel, but I did talk with a man who knew where the oil was taken.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
"Dear Valentine"—Miss Williams began reading the badly rhymed childish drivel.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Let her listen to that fool's drivel about blindness and vinegar all her life.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
How droll the stains one sees on fine-laced doublets, From gall of envy, or the poltroon's drivel!
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

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