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uttering
[ uht-er-ing ]
noun
- the crime of knowingly tendering or showing a forged instrument or counterfeit coin to another with intent to defraud.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Why is it that we have had so much trouble uttering one simple word: “anti-Semitism”?
Dench trembles whilst uttering the words, “out damned spots!”
I do remember uttering Whoa, channeling my inner Keanu Reeves.
Merely uttering the word is enough to draw a primary challenge.
Leto even knows he killed the performance, cooly uttering, “There you go...” at the end.
They were the very words that she desired to hear from him; yet his manner of uttering them gave her little reassurance.
Tom sat down as he said this, and, uttering a sort of groan, leaned his back against a tree.
A noted miser boasted that he had lost five shillings without uttering a single complaint.
White with passion, Gray was on the point of uttering other angry and provocative words when Seton took his arm in a firm grip.
Whilst so engaged, the general threw up his hands and fell without uttering a word.
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