as in murmured
to speak softly and unclearly
I can't understand you if you mumble
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Recent Examples of mumbled
Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Vic mumbled, coughing sleep from his throat.
—Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mumbled
Verb
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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
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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
Adjective
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At times, the actor feels more like a design element, akin to the marble coffins and gape-mouthed friezes of this gothic world.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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Even Mayhem—the motor-mouthed con artist who bounced through Season 2 with chaotic energy—begins to soften.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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His wraparound, tight-quarters assist on a Keshad Johnson dunk in the second half breathed fire into the lungs of the home crowd.—
Bryce Miller Columnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Nov. 2021
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“Mumbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mumbled. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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