muttered; muttering; mutters
1
: to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed
… he gestured and muttered furiously in his lawyer's ear.—
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Tana French2
: to murmur complainingly or angrily : grumble
Some employees muttered about the changes in the pension plan.
: to utter especially in a low or imperfectly articulated manner
muttered an apology
mutter
noun
Examples of mutter in a Sentence
She angrily muttered something about her bad luck.
She sat practicing her speech, muttering to herself.
Some employees are muttering about the changes in the pension plan.
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But unlike France — which has both Napoleonic history and darkly muttering existentialists wandering the streets of Paris to remind everyone just how bad things can get — we Americans have no natural immunity.
—Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
Several people are pacing up and down the crowd muttering a headcount to themselves to figure out their number in line.
—Nick Robins-Early, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
The exchange, muttered by countless couples in countless beds, reminds us that sleep is not a neat off-and-on switch but a fully human and fiendishly manifold activity: social, complex, and governed by as many psychological intricacies as any other natural act.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
At the Starbucks in Chicago on Monday, a man entered the cafe and paced back and forth, muttering to himself.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
Several people are pacing up and down the crowd muttering a headcount to themselves to figure out their number in line.
—Nick Robins-Early, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
The exchange, muttered by countless couples in countless beds, reminds us that sleep is not a neat off-and-on switch but a fully human and fiendishly manifold activity: social, complex, and governed by as many psychological intricacies as any other natural act.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
At the Starbucks in Chicago on Monday, a man entered the cafe and paced back and forth, muttering to himself.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Mutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutter. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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