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stutter

verb as in speak haltingly

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While other eReaders can also handle PDFs, the Amazon Paperwhite does so without stutter or formatting hiccups.

Wall brought the ball up and, with Raul Neto in his sights, took a stutter step, accelerated, moved the ball behind his back then laid it in with his left hand.

JaMarcus had a stutter, and they mocked him with tongue twisters.

The game involved taking tiny stutter steps and long strides without altering your pace or losing your momentum, regardless of where you were going.

The cutscenes pop up without a stutter and it took me just over 12 seconds to get from the menu into the game itself.

But, even with a pronounced stutter for the rest of his days, Moses survived.

Sometimes an f-word or a b-word is used in TV and movies like a stutter.

A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

He was a boy of 14, Chicago born and raised, with a persistent stutter left over from an early bout with polio.

Maybe the media, and professional sports, are just several stutter-steps behind the country on this one.

Slight stutter ensues on the part of the Four Grenadiers; but they give one another the hint, and dash forward: "Prisoners?"

Look at the reports: the bulletins are confused; the commentaries are entangled; the latter stammer, the former stutter.

It was as if two men talked, one in rapid and clear-clipped syllables—the other in a stutter.

His gait was a shuffling trot, his utterance a rapid stutter.

Dick couldn't spell his own name—couldn't answer a question without a stutter.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stutter, such as: sputter, stammer, dribble, falter, hesitate, and splutter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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