The Twaddling voice, the characteristic reference to health, were intensely aggravating.
"From One Generation to Another"
Henry Seton Merriman
And, after weeping the usual quantity, he twaddled, and, after Twaddling, he became as pacific as ever, for he went to sleep in his chair.
"Put Yourself in His Place"
Charles Reade
To create a little heaven in the nursery by hymns, and these not mawkish or Twaddling, but beautifully natural and exquisitely simple breathings of piety and praise, was the high task to which Watts consecrated, and by which he has immortalised, his genius.
"Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3"
George Gilfillan