0 present participle of prate
1 to talk stupidly, or about things that are not important, for a long time:
I say what is the use of our prating about our good intentions and waiting for somebody else to do the good actions?
We know that well, so they might as well stop prating about it from now on.
There is no point prating about human rights unless we are serious about the rule of law, because that is what protects those rights.
To go on prating about something which we might have wished but which is no longer possible, is to adopt an altogether wrong attitude.
I do not want the prating reply that nationalised industries conduct their own day-to-day affairs.
While we go on prating about the rule of law, to a very large extent the rule of law has disappeared.
It is no use prating about scientific tests.
If we are going hierarchical, let us say that we are going hierarchical and stop prating about a multidisciplinary approach.
