prate
- n idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
- v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina.
- While his wife, daughter, generals and bureaucrats prate of "the international menace of Gothicism," Romulus sits amid the chipped columns and molting gold eagles of his villa and .
- For all of his close analyses of geopolitics, Revel offers a kind of sociobiological conclusion: people may prate of doing good for man kind but deep down they crave power.