Synonyms for blithering

Grammar : Adj

Spell : blith -er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɪð ər

Définition of blithering

Origin : 1880, present participle adjective (from the first typically with idiot) from blither (v.) "to talk nonsense." From 1872 as a verbal noun.

As in babbling : adj chattering

Example sentences :

Why in God's name could he think clearly and yet only talk like a blithering fool?
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

Some of their Professors should be able to do good work in the blithering line.
Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 » by Various

The London public won't stand that sort of blithering twaddle.'
Extract from : « The Man Upstairs » by P. G. Wodehouse

I could see that when, like the blithering ass I am, I interrupted them that evening.
Extract from : « In the Whirl of the Rising » by Bertram Mitford

I could get the beasts, with Davey and that blithering half-breed.
Extract from : « The Pioneers » by Katharine Susannah Prichard

I'll let the blithering class slide if you don't give me the towel!
Extract from : « The New Machiavelli » by Herbert George Wells

By the way, I can't help being an ass tonight; I'm obliged to go on blithering.
Extract from : « Trent's Last Case » by E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

And to think of her as the wife of that blithering little ass—that nincompoop of a Karl Brabetz!
Extract from : « The Man From Brodney's » by George Barr McCutcheon

German infantry on the morning of the 5th ventured an assault and were repulsed by blithering fire.
Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 » by Various

You've got a good enough memory not to have forgotten that you made a blithering fool of me once.
Extract from : « Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor » by William Somerset Maugham

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