Drawl /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Drawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling

1. To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

1. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

   Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.

1. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.