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as in inarticulate
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as in undignified
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Recent Examples of ineloquent
There’s a certain purity in art that’s so aggressively ineloquent.
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Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
Hatch’s ineloquent remarks hint at a new reality for supporters of Kavanaugh: Ford, and her story, are now going to be much harder to ignore or discredit.
—Jen Kirby, Vox, 27 Sep. 2018
George W. Bush, often so ineloquent in public, worked hard as governor of Texas and afterward to master legislative arguments and complications.
—James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
Hatch’s ineloquent remarks hint at a new reality for supporters of Kavanaugh: Ford, and her story, are now going to be much harder to ignore or discredit.
—Jen Kirby, Vox, 27 Sep. 2018
George W. Bush, often so ineloquent in public, worked hard as governor of Texas and afterward to master legislative arguments and complications.
—James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineloquent
Adjective
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From this, and similarly strong but inarticulate reactions, Haidt concluded that the students had arrived at their judgments impulsively.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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At the climax of this bizarre collection of movements S… would let out a harsh, inarticulate cry.—
Caitlyn Murphy,
Hazlitt,
13 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Still, this is an undignified end to the San Francisco career of a truly great player.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
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But his 2024 campaign and this undignified exit will leave a sour taste that will be hard to chase.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Bloomberg has gone so far as to report that Zaslav is in early, informal talks regarding potential successors.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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The expectation has always been that the president would behave in a certain way, abiding by a generations-long yet informal agreement about the role and discretion of the administrative state.—
Jay Cost,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Ineloquent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineloquent. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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