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- adjective Having a
warbling quality; tending towarble
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Examples
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Some broadcasters thought AM audio sounded "warbly" on occasion, Struble said.
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That's how you get that weird warbly low thump in the trumpet ... spit flopping around at the curve of the tubing by the primary spit valve ...
2001: A Space Odyssey...Intro Music Played by a School Band 2009
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While Ms. Maggart's singing itself is attractive enough — she has a warbly tremolo that I find increasingly endearing — it's the show itself that's the point.
Basically Bassists, Plus Varied Voices Will Friedwald 2011
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It's exactly the sort of simperingly earnest, warbly bum-sneeze we have come to know and ignore over the last 10 years.
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But the lead vocalist has a grating, moaning, warbly-uncertain sort of voice, and he's not helped in his self-appointed task by the fact that whenever the melody line goes up, particularly if it leaps a sizeable interval, he slips sometimes as much as a semitone off key.
Vernian Process, Behold The Machine (2009) Adam Roberts 2010
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This time she did giggle, a little warbly tone that I swear would have crippled me if I had heard it in person.
Mississippi Blues 2010
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When I first heard leadman Zach Condon's warbly voice over what I immediately identified as gypsy music, Beirut made sense.
Adam Clark Estes: Beirut Plays The Guggenheim, Pastiche Meets Perilous Hipster Reality 2010
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But the lead vocalist has a grating, moaning, warbly-uncertain sort of voice, and he's not helped in his self-appointed task by the fact that whenever the melody line goes up, particularly if it leaps a sizeable interval, he slips sometimes as much as a semitone off key.
Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Louisianians still want strong leaders not warbly voiced fence strattlers who take their orders from closeted homosexuals like Carl Rove.
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Louisianians still want strong leaders not warbly voiced fence strattlers who take their orders from closeted homosexuals like Carl Rove.
Louisiana Treasurer Switches To GOP ��� May Potentially Run For Senate 2009
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