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Word List: Alternatives to "Whisper"

Instead of whispered, consider:

  • murmured
  • mumbled
  • muttered
  • breathed
  • sighed
  • hissed
  • mouthed
  • uttered
  • intoned
  • susurrated
  • purred
  • said in an undertone
  • gasped
  • hinted
  • said low
  • said into someone’s ear
  • said softly
  • said under one’s breath
  • said in hushed tones
  • insinuated
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more good words to use instead of whispered

  • sniffed
  • invoked
  • expectorated
  • execorated
  • ejaculated
  • mewled
  • meowed
  • chirped
  • bleated
  • blathered
  • buzzled
  • burbled
  • barfed
  • husked 
  • horked
  • hailed
  • hallowed
  • hickeyed
  • hackneyed
  • expounded
  • compounded
  • impounded
  • dremeled
  • tremoloed
  • contrappassoed 
  • stultified
  • speechified 
  • appropriated
  • pewled
  • peeled
  • purled
  • pearled
  • evocated
  • equivocated 
  • problematized
  • synergized