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mumbling

verbnouncommon in dialogue

An act in which someone mumbles something

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of mumblepresent participle and gerund of mumble

noun

  1. 1

    An act in which someone mumbles something

    The second is the contrast with the inarticulate stumblings, mumblings, evasions and half-truths of our current president.

Forms

plural
mumblings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).