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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a guttural manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a guttural manner.

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  • adverb In a harsh or throaty manner.

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  • adverb in a guttural manner

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Examples

  • Sometimes they call gutturally to each other and stop to shift shoulders.

    Men, Women and Ghosts Amy Lowell 1899

  • Rowelled by the squeaky music to recollection of old-world ports and places, Borckman lay on his face on the hot planking, beat a tattoo with his naked toes, and gutturally muttered an unending monologue of curses.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • This includes a very good copy of the original — and superior — German-language version, as well as the English-language version, in which Emil Jannings gutturally massacres his non- native language.

    The Unhappiest Man in Hollywood Scott Eyman 2010

  • He's gruffly lyrical at the opening but soon opens out into his characteristic jagged runs, gutturally swerving around Lovens's clanging cymbals and Schlippenbach's Cecil Tayloresque torrents, before evaporating into soft multiphonics toward the end of the 40-minute opener.

    Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau 2010

  • Of course, Simmons is a Texas based energy investment banker and an American, who might not fit in the format for the program, which endeavors to present international viewpoints for an American television herd that speaks gutturally of “foreigners” and belches hatred of the United Nations with every opportunity.

    In a Pig's Eye Michael Caddell 2005

  • Of course, Simmons is a Texas based energy investment banker and an American, who might not fit in the format for the program, which endeavors to present international viewpoints for an American television herd that speaks gutturally of “foreigners” and belches hatred of the United Nations with every opportunity.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Michael Caddell 2005

  • The driver gathered up the reins, cracked his whip, and the big-bodied droschke went swerving round the corner, clattering gutturally on the cobbled stone pavement.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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