prattlers

I had six brothers that you might justly have called prattlers; and that you may know them the better, the name of the first was Bacbouc, of the second Backbarah of the third

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

Still, I occasionally act as audience to pundits and prattlers, so I can possibly decipher a coherent reason for the disdain held towards non-conservatives and non-believers.

Chasing Tale in December '09 2010

And with diamonds on my hands- I commend you to Oscar Wilde who had more talent in his left buttock that you self absorbed prattlers ever will have in your whole lives

Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010

There's room for prattlers on the net,if only to steer them away from loftier blogs like Jmaes' and Tom's where they'd only annoy.

[wisdom] does it require humility 2009

There are many wilful prattlers in the blogosphere for every self-respecter with occasional tendencies to pomposity.

[wisdom] does it require humility 2009

And it is not until the likes of Peston and his claque of fellow prattlers are forced, kicking and screaming, to recognise the reality that they so assiduously ignore that we will begin to make progress.

Who rules Britain? Richard 2008

This, to an extent, explains why EU Referendum is outside the circle of guilded, self-referential prattlers who indulge in their orgies of introspection about the minutia of local politics in the Westminster bubble.

Who rules Britain? Richard 2008

“Why are none of these prattlers mine?” she continued, pursuing the tenor of her melancholy reflections.

The Abbot 2008

But it gets its digs in, just like other prattlers in the series, e.g. “Sports Night”.

Scripting News for 12/19/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

Aristophanes, in one of his later comedies (Frogs), speaks of ‘thousands of tragedy-making prattlers,’ whose attempts at poetry he compares to the chirping of swallows;

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006