ventriloquize
/vɛnˈtrɪləkwaɪz/
verb
- To speak in a way that makes the voice seem to come from a different source, especially a puppet or dummy, by not moving the lips.
- She can ventriloquize without anyone noticing her lips moving.
- The performer learned to ventriloquize so well that the audience believed the puppet was talking.
- At the talent show, he tried to ventriloquize, but his lips kept twitching.
- To speak for someone else or express another person's thoughts or opinions as if they were one's own.
- In the meeting, she felt she had to ventriloquize her boss's ideas to avoid conflict.
- The author used the character to ventriloquize his own political beliefs.
- The politician seemed to ventriloquize the views of his party's leaders rather than his own.