Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unsubstantial; trashy.
  • noun That which is unsubstantial, trashy, or deceptive.

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Examples

  • I have a good excuse to spare you my blathery scrawl about the show-stopping beauty in this story — the hot cats at Electric Literature have done so in a flashier way, and before you even tap the PLAY button on your baubly mp3 players, you ought to watch this:

    Sir Henry | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2010

  • It doesn't splat exactly after that, but you veer off into blathery "love affairs and depression of his own" and nothing much more about the murder.

    HH Com 492 Miss Snark 2006

  • It's a blathery but not total blather hook but if you had good pages I'd overlook that.

    HH Com 188 Miss Snark 2006

  • It doesn't splat exactly after that, but you veer off into blathery "love affairs and depression of his own" and nothing much more about the murder.

    12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006 Miss Snark 2006

  • It's a blathery but not total blather hook but if you had good pages I'd overlook that.

    12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006

  • It doesn't splat exactly after that, but you veer off into blathery "love affairs and depression of his own" and nothing much more about the murder.

    Archive 2006-12-24 Miss Snark 2006

  • It's a blathery but not total blather hook but if you had good pages I'd overlook that.

    Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006

  • I had a long blathery post up about how I concluded that deciding to go to graduate school wasn't a bad decision, even though it turned out badly.

    Decisions, Revisited Emma Goldman 2005

  • I had a long blathery post up about how I concluded that deciding to go to graduate school wasn't a bad decision, even though it turned out badly.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Emma Goldman 2005

  • It's a bit high volume and blathery, but if you want to see something of what the guys discuss on that list then here you are: bristolfest_rss.

    3rd June 2004 tinyjo 2004

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