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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.

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Examples

  • Larry Fafarman: If you want to disagree with others on the substance, feel free to — but “driveled” is over the line and, no, “troll” is not over the line, nor is “antisemite,” though you are of course free to defend yourself substantively against the charge, as you have tried to do.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Beware of Ellipses: 2007

  • They are what Cheney and Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and the rest of that "New American Generation" crew had in mind when they talked about market forces and the "opportunity for regime change" and when they driveled-on about spreading American entrepreneurial capitalism across the globe.

    Blackwater: the Visigoths 2007

  • And the man driveled on in the dark, concerning himself for the most part with those interests which had occupied his life when he was a boy.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • He had driveled along respectably so far, he thought, but he had the sentimental longings of years, starved of expression, culminating in his heart.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • A painfully homely face with tears running from the closed eyes, with an open mouth that driveled and drooled.

    The Cost 1904

  • "I oughtn't to have driveled about that accident," he said.

    An Unpardonable Liar Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The very horses had caught the inspiration of the moment, champing bits in their effort to forge to the front rank, while the blood-stained slaver coated many breasts or driveled from our boots.

    The Outlet Andy Adams 1897

  • A painfully homely face with tears running from the closed eyes, with an open mouth that driveled and drooled.

    The Cost David Graham Phillips 1889

  • All the way up the mountain he driveled to me about asparagus on toast, a thing that his intelligence in life had skipped.

    The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886

  • No true woman can love and reverence a man who is morally and intellectually lower than herself, and who has driveled down into a mere assenting puppet.

    Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

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