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mumble

verb as in say low and inarticulately

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This is when many older workers quietly mumble to themselves: “I’m done with that,” she says.

I throw it on over my dashiki and mumble my thanks.

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She mumbled her threadbare story about being the cousin of England’s queen, but her heart was not in it, and she fell silent.

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“I thought the book was lost,” she mumbled.

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“Pecked to death by murderous pheasants,” Fredrick mumbled, his mouth full of turnips.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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