Red-nose mumbles, Turton talks distinctly, Mrs. Turton takes bribes, Mrs. Red-nose does not and cannot, because so far there is no Mrs. Red-nose.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— to utter words in a low confused indistinct manner : MUTTER
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Macmillan
— to say something in a way that is not loud or clear enough so that your words are difficult to understand
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Collins
— If you mumble, you speak very quietly and not at all clearly with the result that the words are difficult to understand.
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1 use of ‘mumbles’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster