mutter
verb (used without object)
to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
mutteringly
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a word derived from
mutter.
Example Sentences
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He speaks rapidly, mutteringly, in great long paragraphs full of observation and introspection and drollery and doubt, generally frowning at the floor while he does so.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2016
He, mutteringly: "I can tell she's going to upstage me."
From Time Magazine Archive
McGary mutteringly replied, “I’ll see to that;” and dismounting, entered the circle around the prisoners.
From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Then, as if struck by something in the appearance of the corpse, he mutteringly interrogates: “Is he sure gone dead?”
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
I said something mutteringly, and he vowed he would hear it.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
