ventriloquistic
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a word derived from
ventriloquism.
ventriloquismnounthe art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
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a word derived from
ventriloquist.
Example Sentences
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And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2014
Weissmann has made anything but the simplest ventriloquistic performance impossible—she cannot lift a hand.
From The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland
Now came again the ventriloquistic voice at the door, "phaeton's ready, Miss Margaret."
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
"Gone on ahead!" grunted the younger gentleman, in a bass voice, so incongruously large for him that it seemed to have been a ventriloquistic contribution by somebody else.
From Drift from Two Shores by Bret Harte
A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her,—she could not tell where.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower