chuntered

past tense of chunter, British

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Verb
  • There are few actors whose disembodied voices could carry long stretches of cinema, but Dafoe manages it, turning monologues about marionette mechanics or muttered complaints about hotel politics into something weirdly magnetic.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Some faculty and staff reacted with horror, others voiced increasing fear about the ongoing assault on academic freedom, and some merely muttered in sad resignation to the new reality.
    Giuliana Perrone, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Vic mumbled, coughing sleep from his throat.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Chuntered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chuntered. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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