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maundering - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
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noun rambling or pointless discourse .verb maunder .
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Examples
And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
Why would someone use the word maundering when they meant meandering?
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough." Ann Althouse 2008
And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first.
Chapter 8 1914
Here's the American Heritage Dictionary on "maundering ": 1. To talk incoherently or aimlessly.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough." Ann Althouse 2008
If Peggy had used "maundering ", I would have assumed that "meandering" had gotten mistyped.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough." Ann Althouse 2008
I don't recall ever coming across the word "maundering ".
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough." Ann Althouse 2008
I don't recall ever seeing the word "maundering " before, and I consider myself to be pretty well read.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough." Ann Althouse 2008
I will try if by judicious treatment the 'maundering ' may not be made into something worth the hearing.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
We'd love to comment, but I'm afraid to say that none of us here at the Sacred Order of Libertines had the stamina to read all the way through his maundering moralism.
Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009
Staggering and maundering to himself, with bloodshot eyes, and a raw and bleeding slash down one side of his bewhiskered face, he was altogether the most nauseating specimen of degradation and filth I had ever encountered.
Page 5 2010
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