barely audible

As bad as it looks on the page, it sounded and looked worse live, especially when taken in context with the unsteady way he had walked to his lectern, the barely audible voice he was speaking with, and the vacant, almost alarmed way he stared into the camera when Trump was talking:

"The siren song of golf was barely audible to me when I retired from amateur tennis," Gibson wrote in her 1968 autobiography, "So Much to Live For," per ESPN.

President Biden was barely audible and mumbling - and managed to call Rishi Sunak “Mr President.”

Biden seemed, instead, hopelessly confused, his voice raspy and barely audible, unable to complete consecutive sentences or push back on the uninterrupted stream of hallucinations coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth.

“I said I wanted no part of it,” the warden, Justin Hawkaluk, recalled with a barely audible chuckle.