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- adverb In a
muffled manner;indistinctly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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People who you can bury under a kitchen's worth of slush, and who will still say muffledly "I think I see something!"
Archive 2008-05-01 Editorial Anonymous 2008
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"Nope," said Rutherford, somewhat muffledly around his burnt thumb.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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"Did you bring the spanner?" asked someone muffledly.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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"It even _smells_ right, in here," Gimp growled muffledly, trying to be nonchalant.
The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952
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"You little, white cat!" she cried, muffledly, her face in his thick coat, "you've waited and waited, but I think I'm going to love you now -- you needn't wait any more."
Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell
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They passed the stairs; he felt the soft yield of carpet beneath his feet; they passed that recumbent figure and now he heard the rhythm of a sleeper's heavy breath, escaping muffledly from the folds of a thick mantle which the sleeper's habits had wrapped about his head.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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A key clicked in the terrace door -- a voice swore muffledly at the rain.
The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Miss Cornelia's voice came muffledly from the head of the stairs.
The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Sounds enter muffledly before surging to full volume, and then back again, like being underwater, and there's a general atmosphere of perpetual stuck-ness.
The Line Of Best Fit Sophie McGrath 2010
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Sounds enter muffledly before surging to full volume, and then back again, like being underwater, and there's a general atmosphere of perpetual stuck-ness.
The Line Of Best Fit Sophie McGrath 2010
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