twaddling

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He's a maudlin, twaddling, selfish fool, and bores everybody who comes near him about the state of his health Men of that sort, Percival, live long, and marry malevolently when you least expect it.

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  • All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. —  Vanity Fair
  • Yes; I can see Jones at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words "foolish, twaddling," &c.;, and adding to them his own remark of "QUITE TRUE." —  Vanity Fair
  • He's a maudlin, twaddling, selfish fool, and bores everybody who comes near him about the state of his health Men of that sort, Percival, live long, and marry malevolently when you least expect it. —  The Woman in White
  • Plato, who often finds fault with Homer without reason, should have copied this twaddling etymology into his Cratylus. —  The Iliad
  • Why all this twiddling and twaddling over two Miss Alans? " —  A Room with a View
 

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