uninflected
adjective
un·in·flect·ed
ˌən-in-ˈflek-təd 
: not having or marked by inflection : not inflected
a monotonous, uninflected voice
uninflected plurals
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Is this kind of calm, vocally uninflected professionalism simply part of the job?
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
The sophisticated parsing of law and finance, the hard-nosed practicality of retail politics, and the workaday lilt of person-in-the-street interviews converge on the soundtrack and are reflected in images that are modestly but candidly communicative—uninflected but humming with passion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Haring made uninflected linear drawings almost exclusively glyphs and pictographs, like Paleolithic cave art with an agitated urban edge.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
Because of her preternatural calm before the microphone, the uninflected, more-in-sadness-than-in-anger tone of her delivery, Hutchinson was often compared to John Dean, the White House counsel under Richard Nixon, who emerged from the Watergate hearings as the most memorable and decisive witness.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
The sophisticated parsing of law and finance, the hard-nosed practicality of retail politics, and the workaday lilt of person-in-the-street interviews converge on the soundtrack and are reflected in images that are modestly but candidly communicative—uninflected but humming with passion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Haring made uninflected linear drawings almost exclusively glyphs and pictographs, like Paleolithic cave art with an agitated urban edge.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
Because of her preternatural calm before the microphone, the uninflected, more-in-sadness-than-in-anger tone of her delivery, Hutchinson was often compared to John Dean, the White House counsel under Richard Nixon, who emerged from the Watergate hearings as the most memorable and decisive witness.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
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“Uninflected.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uninflected. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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