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- noun Plural form of
prater .
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Examples
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How funny the hypocritical praters of the left are.
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Sirens, the cunning, knavish, subtle praters, and was filled with silly thoughts.
Andromache 2007
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Cum non sint re vera doctiores, sed loquaciores, whereas they are not thereby better scholars, but greater praters.
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Sirens, the cunning, knavish, subtle praters, and was filled with silly thoughts.
Andromache 2007
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Aldobrandino, doest thou think that I regard any such praters?
The Decameron 2004
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But I will see no more of those sights which are shown you by one of those venal praters, who ten times a day, parrot-wise, repeat over the same dull lesson they have got by heart.
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- You are right, no law-suit; but up! let us burn down the home of those praters.
The Clouds 2000
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It was enough for me, Lord, to oppose to those deceived deceivers, and dumb praters, since Thy word sounded not out of them; — that was enough which long ago, while we were yet at
The Confessions 1999
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-- You are right, no law-suit; but up! let us burn down the home of those praters.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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‘About the bogs of Ireland,’ replied I, ‘and I was baptized over a bowl of buttermilk and praters by Father Murphy in a stable among a parcel of cows.’
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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