Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a muttering manner; without distinct articulation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb With a muttering sound.

Etymologies

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muttering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Nine months later this baby is fully out, swaddled in awards and platinum albums and many, many tears, and it's been the guilty pleasure for millions: men, if caught watching it, will redden and switch to the donkey-porn channel; women will mutteringly insist they're just catching up on, like, who's pregnant and that, honest.

    Glee; Imagine; Storyville; Peckham Finishing School for Girls 2010

  • My brother seemed ready to give a loose to his passion: My father put on the countenance which always portends a gathering storm: My uncles mutteringly whispered: And my sister aggravatingly held up her hands.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I said something mutteringly, and he vowed he would hear it.

    Pamela 2006

  • In the entrance hall, the forty butlers are pouring rivers of champagne mutteringly identifying the vintage, as instructed and dispensing the fascinating canapés arranged on replica Royal Worcester and Chelsea serving dishes, each with a little porcelain Chinese person in the center playfully pointing to the food.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • In the entrance hall, the forty butlers are pouring rivers of champagne mutteringly identifying the vintage, as instructed and dispensing the fascinating canapés arranged on replica Royal Worcester and Chelsea serving dishes, each with a little porcelain Chinese person in the center playfully pointing to the food.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • In the entrance hall, the forty butlers are pouring rivers of champagne mutteringly identifying the vintage, as instructed and dispensing the fascinating canapés arranged on replica Royal Worcester and Chelsea serving dishes, each with a little porcelain Chinese person in the center playfully pointing to the food.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • A step approached her bed, she dared not move, she strove to calm her palpitations, which became more violent, when she heard her mother say mutteringly, “Pretty simpleton, little do you think that your game is already at an end for ever.”

    The Last Man 2003

  • Another story we have of her; "Berurea found a certain scholar reading mutteringly, and spurned at him," &c.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • All on board was settling down into Yangtze fashion, and the barbaric human clamor of our trackers, which now mutteringly died away, was suddenly taken up, as above recorded, and all unexpectedly answered by a grander uproar -- a deep threatening boom of far-off thunder.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • "Bring him along?" mutteringly echoed the blankbrained Link.

    His Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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