ineloquent

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ineloquent There’s a certain purity in art that’s so aggressively ineloquent. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021 Hatch’s ineloquent remarks hint at a new reality for supporters of Kavanaugh: Ford, and her story, are now going to be much harder to ignore or discredit. Jen Kirby, Vox, 27 Sep. 2018 George W. Bush, often so ineloquent in public, worked hard as governor of Texas and afterward to master legislative arguments and complications. James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineloquent
Adjective
  • Hank’s friends – conspiracy theorist Dale, military barber Bill, and cool but inarticulate Boomhauer, along with Peggy’s friends Minh and meteorologist Nancy, and Bobby’s friend Connie helped the Hills navigate a changing world.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The root conveys a sense of emitting a deep, inarticulate sound of distress.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But having to hold on to the subway wall for fear of getting pushed onto the tracks by a crazy person is undignified too.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2025
  • There’s something faintly undignified about a president of the United States being goaded by a minor Russian official into making nuclear threats on social media.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Even as liberal-seeming Amir invites Yusuf to join the Muslim Association, an informal organization of male Arab landowners, Yusuf’s father is killed in a night-time confrontation with the settlers.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The only time this percentage has been higher since City joined the informal ranks of that group was in 2009, at the outset of their Abu Dhabi project.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite these demands, and despite the colloquial title of elite firefighter, hotshots weren’t officially categorized as firefighters until the summer of 2022.
    River Selby August 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Gilbert’s colloquial style, once a source of great pleasure, has tipped into new territory—an ingenuousness that blends guru and disciple, mother and child.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Ineloquent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineloquent. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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