prattle

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1. prattle - Noun

2. prattle - Verb

Meaning

To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.

Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

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That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves. Alfred Bester

Love - thou art Veiled - A few - behold thee - Smile - and alter - and prattle - and die - Bliss - were an Oddity - without thee - Nicknamed by God - Eternity. Emily Dickinson

Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them? Epictetus

It is some relief to move from the exalted realm of philosophical ethics to the mundane realm of scientific methodology. However, I rather shy away from discussions of Methodology with a capital M. To paraphrase Shaw: Those who can do science; those who can't prattle about its methodology. Paul Samuelson

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. Homer

The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence. Walter Benjamin

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