The phrase "a drivel" is not correct in standard English; it should be "drivel" without the article "a." You can use "drivel" to refer to nonsensical or meaningless talk or ideas, typically in a dismissive context.
Example: "The politician's speech was nothing but drivel, lacking any real substance or insight."
Alternatives: "nonsense" or "rubbish."
Only at the advanced age of seven did poor Timber begin to show interest in a "drivelling, blear-eyed little tame rabbit of the female sex", for which Dickens "whopped him" – surely puzzling Timber by his inconsistency.
When he pops up again (at the end of Tokyo Drift) it is like Gandalf's resurrection as Gandalf the White: the other characters are perfectly fine but there's only so long you can stand a drivelling Orlando Bloom.
Lee DeForest, one of radio's inventors, regretted that his hopes for the medium as a dispenser of "golden argosies of tome" had become "a continual drivel of sickening crooning by 'sax' players interlaced with blatant sales talk".
Both seminars made clear out of the gate that the expo was dedicated to, first and foremost, bullshit and stupidity, a convention comprised of Coen Brother-type idiots and hucksters spewing out a meaningless drivel of empty rhetoric and inflated numbers.
But unlike some of these alternatives, Telonu has a fairly attractive and professional interface that could help attract comments beyond the typical "my boss is a moron" drivel that prevent other sites from becoming valuable resources.
At a time awash in mindless alien monster movies and pseudo-science drivel, a story about a rational and heroic scientist is sorely needed.
'I Should Be so Lucky' and its ilk on CD1 were a load of drivel buoyed along on a tide of nasty, tinny sounds.
A French minister of culture once called Eurovision a monument to drivel.
Valere is a lowbrow motormouth served up with highbrow eloquence; a demagogue of drivel, he goes well beyond the stock type of fop or fool.
He knocked out a load of high-tone plays (the best-known, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, fantasised about a café encounter between the artist and Albert Einstein in 1904), published a collection of humorous essays called Pure Drivel, took a supporting role in a David Mamet movie and wrote Bowfinger.
