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  • verb Present participle of droll.

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Examples

  • But more sadly still I hail the host himself, and desire to know of him if literature was not somehow a gayer science in those days, and if his peculiar kind of drolling had not rather more heart in it then.

    Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

  • Mr. Arbuton thought this rather a coarse kind of drolling, and strengthened himself anew in his resolution to avoid those people.

    A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878

  • And, as to standing up for the American People, just more flag waving crappola drolling out of a Repub mouth when he has nothing to say about anything.

    Pawlenty back on the Trail 2009

  • After hearing Sanford drolling about his love affair and dalliances with others I believe he wants out.

    Resignation drumbeat grows louder in South Carolina 2009

  • Many are probably drolling to see if you are a candidate for credit.

    Color of Money Book Club 2010

  • Many are probably drolling to see if you are a candidate for credit.

    Color of Money Book Club 2010

  • But, at 23, I bet I'm not the oldest girl drolling over his ripped body.

    TEAM JACOB Jill 2009

  • But, at 23, I bet I'm not the oldest girl drolling over his ripped body.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Jill 2009

  • It was sickening to see pundits drolling at the significance of Obama's win at Iowa.

    Final Numbers: Obama Wins Huge Victory 2009

  • To hear my guilt, my folly, my agony, the foibles and weaknesses of my friends — even your heroic exertions, Jeanie, spoken of in the drolling style which is the present tone in fashionable life — Scarce all that I formerly endured is equal to this state of irritation — then it was blows and stabs — now it is pricking to death with needles and pins. —

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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