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- adjective Not
eloquent
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Examples
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I'm hopelessly uneloquent and I'm not sure how to respond.
In My Mailbox - 01/17/2010 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010
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One final, perhaps unrelated, point: Although I think that Stevens 'opinion was admirable in every way, am I the only person who foundn it quite uneloquent, when all is said and done?
Balkinization 2006
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It basically justified, as it always does, Israeli killing of Arabs, but wants Israel to be careful in its killing, not out of concern for the civilian Arabs that Israel habitually kills, but out of concern for "the soul of Israel," as Michael Lerner would put it in his most uneloquent way.
Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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And there are others also to be pitied; for there are some of an inert, uneloquent nature, who have been denied all the symbols of communication, who have neither a lively play of facial expression, nor speaking gestures, nor a responsive voice, nor yet the gift of frank, explanatory speech: people truly made of clay, people tied for life into a bag which no one can undo.
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More unedited, unorganized, uneloquent notes on Readercon before I forget everything that happened....
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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More unedited, unorganized, uneloquent notes on Readercon before I forget everything that happened....
Readercon: Day 2 2005
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Your condencending racial comments are some of the most uneloquent words I have read in awhile.
Obama vs. Keyes Nathaniel Livingston 2004
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And there are others also to be pitied; for there are some of an inert, uneloquent nature, who have been denied all the symbols of communication, who have neither a lively play of facial expression, nor speaking gestures, nor a responsive voice, nor yet the gift of frank, explanatory speech: people truly made of clay, people tied for life into a bag which no one can undo.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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If he had kissed her with those uneloquent and untrained lips of his, impure in their purity, she would never have forgiven herself.
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Very soon father and son resumed their old relations of sudden tempers and mutual admiration, and a strange, rather pathetic, quite uneloquent love that was none the less real because it was, on either side, completely selfish.
The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912
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