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  • adverb In a muffled manner; indistinctly.

Etymologies

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muffled +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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

  • "Nope," said Rutherford, somewhat muffledly around his burnt thumb.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • "Did you bring the spanner?" asked someone muffledly.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • "It even _smells_ right, in here," Gimp growled muffledly, trying to be nonchalant.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • "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

  • 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

  • A key clicked in the terrace door -- a voice swore muffledly at the rain.

    The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Miss Cornelia's voice came muffledly from the head of the stairs.

    The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • 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

  • 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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