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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being ineloquent; want of eloquence; a habit of silence or reserve in speech.

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  • noun The state or condition of being ineloquent.

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Examples

  • When I complained that the resulting text made everyone look silly, reading more like a case study of neurological impairment than an interview, I was treated to a lecture about the necessity of maintaining the "naturalness" of my natural ineloquence.

    Sam Harris: The Perils of the Print Interview Sam Harris 2011

  • The smell of torture springs from the red ink of their pens, the finality and confirmation of your inadequacy, ineloquence, inferiority.

    jaeaxe Diary Entry jaeaxe 2009

  • Sadly, he reminded us also of the ineloquence of George Bush at which we laugh, but which in fact represents a simplicity of the mind, a unidimensional view of life that Mr. Bush carries forth into the world that sews fear and destruction in its path.

    Rick Jacobs: Al Gore -- The American Soul 2008

  • "I don't know, " I replied, in a moment of stark ineloquence.

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

  • "I don't know, " I replied, in a moment of stark ineloquence.

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

  • To us, as already hinted, the Lord Abbot's eloquence is less admirable than his ineloquence, his great invaluable 'talent of silence!'

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Specimens of the genre share a low-key naturalism, low-fi production values and a stream of low-volume chatter often perceived as ineloquence.

    The Big Apple bapopik@aol.com 2010

  • Specimens of the genre share a low-key naturalism, low-fi production values and a stream of low-volume chatter often perceived as ineloquence.

    The Big Apple 2010

  • Peter Hook's Freebass project have written a song with Howard Marx doing a "state of the world" rap on it which will probably trump Jon McClure in the political ineloquence stakes

    The Line Of Best Fit Susana Pearl 2010

  • Peter Hook's Freebass project have written a song with Howard Marx doing a "state of the world" rap on it which will probably trump Jon McClure in the political ineloquence stakes

    The Line Of Best Fit Susana Pearl 2010

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