mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
mumblingly
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a word derived from
mumble.
Example Sentences
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Phoenix’s performance — already a master class in cowering passivity — becomes mumblingly incoherent and inert.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
"Be you'm a-goin', Prue?" inquired the Ancient mumblingly, for his pipe was in full blast.
From The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol
"And could we go farther than to the moon if we wanted to?" inquired the bandaged figure mumblingly.
From Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Roy Rockwood
Why, Reason is the thing," and then he added mumblingly and reflectively, "but then we have learned that there is a right and reason must end by being right.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
He stooped to lift the heavy burden, and she heard him say a word mumblingly, as though ashamed of it.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
