blather

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verb

blath·er ˈbla-t͟hər

blathered; blathering ˈbla-t͟h(ə-)riŋ

Synonyms of blather next

intransitive verb

: to talk foolishly at length

—often used with on

blatherer

ˈbla-t͟hər-ər

noun

blather

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noun

: voluble nonsensical or inconsequential talk or writing

: stir, commotion

Example Sentences

Noun listening to a lot of blather from politicians about who's to blame for the bad economy wanted to retire quietly and without all the blather of an office send-off

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

As in previous years, performers, presenters and winners alike had to battle the nonstop din of the blaring motormouths who blathered throughout. —

George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023 The request was ignored, and the crowd blathered on. —

George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023 Consider the mid-credits scene of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, two endless minutes of cameos blathering continuity followed by 12 brief seconds of wonderful freewheeling karaoke. —

Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023 Many investment companies, eager to persuade trustees to invest with them, will blather about how a particular investment plan can achieve high returns in both investments and social causes. —

Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2022 Isn’t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system? —

Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021 Jerome blathered with joy as Tiny walked slowly into her house. —

Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019 And when the deed was accomplished, it was considered bad form to blather indecorously about it to media. —

National Geographic, 24 May 2019 The people who live in Carbon Hill, and places like it, need attention for so many other reasons than a chuckleheaded mayor blathering nonsense, privately or publicly, about who needs to die in a second Civil War. —

al.com, 6 June 2019

Noun

Because his patter doesn’t entertain you and interferes with your enlightenment, as well as other members of the class, let those who are willing to tolerate his blather continue his Bible study and business course, while the rest of you move forward with another, less egotistical instructor. —

Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2021 Assaying the general election results in 85 races across the country, the study found that election-denying Republicans received 2.3% less support in statewide contests than Republicans who stood fast and refused to indulge Trump’s insidious blather. —

Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023 Mailer’s representation of events veers wildly from disconnected poetic blather to deeply confusing interior reflections. —

Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023 Few can resist the Beltway’s beckoning, the blather of political pundits or the blandishment of campaign operatives urging them to run. —

Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023 This last point, incidentally, is one of the key ways in which the mainstream media are failing democracy: If a person can give good blather on foreign policy, TV will anoint that person as an expert, even if he’s gotten everything wrong for a decade or two. —

Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2022 All that Zadie Smith–style blather dismissing white patriarchal tradition, as Mike and Maxandra revamp the Rattigan Theater production of Isabel Ascendant, pointlessly insults Oscar Wilde and Terence Rattigan. —

Armond White, National Review, 15 Feb. 2023 How much better things would have been if time—eight or nine months, say—were set aside to knock off all the blather, kick back, chill. —

Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022 Here’s the time-filling round-up of trivia and blather that precedes the much more hard-hitting (yes, that’s a joke) actual red carpet coverage. —

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