mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
half-mumbled
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a word derived from
mumble.
Example Sentences
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From its half-whispered, half-mumbled vocals, to its rumble of a beat, to its creeper lyrics and head-fake tempo shift in its final minute, nothing about “Bad Guy” sounds outdoorsy.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2019
Mr. Reed said only in retrospect did he notice “these sort of cryptic little hints and clues buried in these half-spoken, half-mumbled melodic passes and demos” — nearly subconscious nods toward struggles with identity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
Thone’s Nixon is rawer and angrier, delivering half-mumbled, disarmingly innocuous remarks with mournful, brief smiles before his deadliest thrusts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
“She may be a monster,” he half-mumbled and half-yelled, ”but I love her!”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2010
Styx hath trembled at thy view, And Cerberus, when, smeared with gore, he lay On bones half-mumbled in his darksome mew.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
