as in illegible
incapable of being read or deciphered
after so many years the paper label in the drawer of the antique desk is indecipherable
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Relayed the same message, Foster opened his office door and started yelling indecipherable gibberish as other coaches filled the room.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
Jodie Comer, Michael Shannon, Norman Reedus, and the reigning king of indecipherable dialects, Tom Hardy, round out the splashy ensemble.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
My basic argument was that the market, for whatever its indecipherable reasons might be, had a ravenous appetite for dot-coms and no interest whatsoever in a fine widget company.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024
Unlike the Latin alphabet of romance languages, Greek letters are indecipherable for English speakers, making the language more difficult to learn than Romance languages such as Spanish, Italian, and French.
—Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2022
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
Jodie Comer, Michael Shannon, Norman Reedus, and the reigning king of indecipherable dialects, Tom Hardy, round out the splashy ensemble.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
My basic argument was that the market, for whatever its indecipherable reasons might be, had a ravenous appetite for dot-coms and no interest whatsoever in a fine widget company.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024
Unlike the Latin alphabet of romance languages, Greek letters are indecipherable for English speakers, making the language more difficult to learn than Romance languages such as Spanish, Italian, and French.
—Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2022
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