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worthless talk or informationMore 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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