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Synonyms for mutter

grumble

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Synonyms for mutter

to speak or utter indistinctly, as by lowering the voice or partially closing the mouth

to complain in low indistinct tones

a low indistinct utterance of complaint

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Synonyms for mutter

a low continuous indistinct sound

a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath

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"Deal the cards," he muttered simply, and sat down.
And while they did it, "Green-patch" muttered, "This cripple is plainly a lunatic; but the old scholar shall have his books, nevertheless, though my pocket sweat for it."
"The brothers De Witt are murdered!" Cornelius muttered, with the cold sweat on his brow, and sank on his bed, his arms hanging by his side, and his eyes closed.
"Sho!--I wonder, now," he muttered; then a tender light came into his faded eyes.
"So you think they won't believe my story, eh?" he muttered. "Well, we shall see."
"Some one was in the boat-house when I broke the trap-door," Meekins muttered. "I heard them moving about."
Hamel, I suppose," he muttered. "Another little debt we shall owe him!
Hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and music charity The Playing For Change Foundation have each been awarded the Polar Music Prize.
MUTTER SLATTER BAND: FIELD OF STONE (ANGEL AIR) Mutter Slatter was the frontman, singer and flute player with Stackridge - a hard working band who gigged solidly for decades, sometimes up to 300 shows a year, before calling it a day in 2015.
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Where the scathing satirical tone of O Fallen Angel implicitly calls for the figurative death of the suffocating mother, Zambreno's latest work, Book of Mutter, explores the actual death of her own mother from cancer.
I tried to find the answers to my questions by listening to five different albums, mainly containing recordings of Dvorak's violin concerto, made by the following artists: Josef Suk (1960), Anne-Sophie Mutter (2013), Julia Fischer (2013), Pamela Frank (1998) and Frank Peter Zimmermann (2014).
But newspaper organisations need to rethink their strategy to act more like startups, says Alan Mutter, a former Chicago newspaper editor who is now a consultant on digital news.
Thomas Dent Mutter (18111850), Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz brings a poet's sensibilities to the life of an American surgeon who was at the forefront of advances in medical education and reconstructive surgery.
Mutter and Prat, in this updated third edition, provide new concepts and findings to further patient management and improve communication between the pathologist and the clinician in order to optimize patient care.