as in muttering
speech that is not clear enough to be understood
the distracting mutter of some member of the audience
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as in to complain
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
a muttering group of workers
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as in to mumble
to speak softly and unclearly
muttering to himself under his breath
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Recent Examples of mutter
Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
Now that delegates have a meaningful role, delaying their major decision to the third week in August is risky because Republicans are already muttering about inventive legal schemes to try to block Democrats from electing anyone.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
Listen to this article LONDON — After putting one shot into the net, Iga Swiatek muttered to herself.
—Howard Fendrich, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
Our very own Amelia Bedelia drops a utensil onto the primary and clumsily reaches over the captain to pour his wine, muttering panicked apologies.
—Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
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Verb
Doors malfunctioned, conversations were interrupted by incessant honking, cigarettes and empty alcohol containers lay scattered across the floors, and people spaced out across a half-full train car muttered loudly about delays.
—Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
Now that delegates have a meaningful role, delaying their major decision to the third week in August is risky because Republicans are already muttering about inventive legal schemes to try to block Democrats from electing anyone.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
Listen to this article LONDON — After putting one shot into the net, Iga Swiatek muttered to herself.
—Howard Fendrich, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
Our very own Amelia Bedelia drops a utensil onto the primary and clumsily reaches over the captain to pour his wine, muttering panicked apologies.
—Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutter
Verb
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An unknown number of people within the department complained about the post.Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Reddit users are complaining about problems connecting to the online forum, with thousands of people telling DownDetector on Wednesday that the service is down.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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The two haggard fighters trade punches throughout the 15th and final round, mumbling promises to each other that there will be no re-match, and the bell rings, both men barely upright, but having survived.Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
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But Pippa ignores her friend’s request, sneaks out of the room, and tiptoes downstairs to find Naomi, who is mumbling something about missing jammy dodgers.Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
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Officers responded to calls from people who heard several shots fired and people screaming at 2317 South Pleasant Valley Road at 11:30 p.m. on June 26.Austin American-Statesman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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As one of Jeff Arcuri’s openers at the Beacon Theater, Jensen had the crowd screaming with laughter over a wild bit on the realities of menstruation. 4.Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
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Baraka took the stage, in a pink shirt and white sneakers, and delivered an address that kept the room murmuring and chuckling for more than an hour.Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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My Method Actor scatters luminous beads of sound design into a writhing body of hooks and vocal lines—sometimes murmured, others chanted, all interspersed with that trademark Yanya flourish that sounds like a sigh rising to a yelp.Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
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In a glancing sense, for me, there are whispers of the Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman musical Follies in The Last Showgirl.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
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The Kimberley is a truly wild place, where human history is merely a whisper over millennia.Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement Residents, government officials and experts say the town is a model for coping with dramatic shifts and attribute it to the rural mindset that focuses on fixing, not whining.Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
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The video shows Daisy standing and staring out the window, whining and panting as a shelter member tries to comfort her.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Fike doesn’t mouth along to the songs, make distinct markers of when one ends and another begins, or even mention the titles of any of them.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
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Also present was Dmitri Shostakovich, who had come to New York at Stalin’s behest, in order to mouth propaganda at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Even more excitingly for casual gamers needing more multi-threaded grunt is that AMD should be releasing higher core count X3D processors in the next few months where a Ryzen 9 9950X3D could become the most desirable processor for at least the next 12 months.Antony Leather, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Mutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutter. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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