Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ineloquent manner; without eloquence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Without eloquence.
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- adverb Without
eloquence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thankfully, your "Publicist" so ineloquently, detailed every lie, and some half truths that will be the evidence for prosecution.
Peter Sumaruck II 2010
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This US comment from Graphic Design Rants (20/4/07) sums things up pretty neatly, if somewhat ineloquently:
Archive 2008-07-01 Jonathan 2008
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This US comment from Graphic Design Rants (20/4/07) sums things up pretty neatly, if somewhat ineloquently:
Double standards from the design industry Jonathan 2008
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But at least the Demonstrations allow me to wax less ineloquently than others of similar proclivities.
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No matter how eloquently or ineloquently he handles his favorite ongoing theme -– the role of chance, fate, luck in the universe –- you know it is a 90-minute attempt to escape culpability for that most infamous romantic episode in his life.
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Condescend all you like, Chris, but I think you'll find the majority of us do know what we're talking about however ineloquently many have stated it.
Harry Potter Delay Evokes Angry Outbursts Amongst Fans « FirstShowing.net 2008
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What the younger people ineloquently call "sucking face."
Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004
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In a country gone mad, cattle and crops would be designated matters of “national security” as an un-elected occupant of the White House ineloquently declared, “the nation has to eat”.
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"Say -- honestly?" he asked, ineloquently, with an irrepressible grin.
Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Now, when she was face to face with his love, so ineloquently expressed, so radically a part of him, she knew that there was nothing in the world, external to him and her, that could enter into their reckonings; but into their reckonings there had not entered the one thing essential.
Michael 1903
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