Amutter

//əˈmʌtɚ// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    muttering not-comparable

    "The schemes, the threats, the feuds. The hot nastiness that prevails over everything and everyone. In this idiot and stillborn-stricken village the bereaved sneer at the barren and the barren laugh at the burdened, and the nights are amutter with the rehearsal of nested blames and intractable vendettas."

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"The schemes, the threats, the feuds. The hot nastiness that prevails over everything and everyone. In this idiot and stillborn-stricken village the bereaved sneer at the barren and the barren laugh at the burdened, and the nights are amutter with the rehearsal of nested blames and intractable vendettas."

Etymology

From a- + mutter.

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