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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

As the old man's voice monotonously occupied the room, working its way mumblingly through the end of Exodus, conveying no meaning to the audience, Gilian heard the moor-fowl cry beside Little Fox.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

"Ay, where do folk come from?" answered Maren mumblingly.

From Ditte: Girl Alive! by Nexø, Martin Andersen

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 Waterloo, Stanley

She was absurd with the cigarette between her lips, and she asked mumblingly as Rupert held the match, "Why do you call him that?"

From Moor Fires by Young, E. H. (Emily Hilda)