What does ventriloquial mean?
Ventriloquial means Of or relating to ventriloquy..
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/vɛntɹɪˈləʊkwɪəl/ · adjective
Of or relating to ventriloquy..
Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling.
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He threw half-crowns up into the air until they disappeared into the central blue, and then held a ventriloquial conversation, not in the best of taste, with the celestial spirits, who having caught the coins announced their intention of sticking to them.
We tried this a couple of times with no luck whatsoever, partly because whipbirds are notoriously ventriloquial and we could never agree on where the call was coming from.
Use ventriloquial when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ventriloquial means Of or relating to ventriloquy..
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Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling.
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