ineloquent

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Kindness always made me ineloquent, and as I sat in his big basket chair and sniffed the delightful odour of his pipe, I expressed myself chiefly in woe-begone monosyllables and hiccoughs.

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  1. adjective Lacking or displaying a lack of eloquence.

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  • Over and above the blatant ignorance, this ineloquent sentence sounds more like one from an eager but wet-behind-the-ears high school student rather than a president with a Harvard law degree. —  Latest Articles
  • During a series of meetings with the New York press, one of which was recorded and is now being admired on YouTube in all its ineloquent awkwardness, the daughter of President Kennedy was vague, unconvincing and displayed a potentially ruinous verbal tic. —  South Dakota Politics
  • Last year this blog was a place where I commemorated my daily life with photos (via my photo-a-day project) and maybe a few ineloquent words strung together too, so I spent A LOT of time sitting in front of the computer, blogging. —  Dog's Eye View
  • Many were disappointed (as I was), when in December 2006 the Liberal Party picked Stephane Dion, an ineloquent politician from Quebec who somehow always managed to give the impression that he was both annoyed with and ill-at-ease in the presence of ordinary Canadians, over Ignatieff, who we were told still needed to learn how to play politics, to lead the party. —  CounterPunch
  • It's the kind of sentiment we usually hear from boring nu-metal bands, and to hear such ineloquent lyrics from Kucsulain is disappointing. —  PopMatters
 

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  1. = French inéloquent = Portuguese Italian ineloquente, from Late Latin ineloquen(t-)s, from Latin in- privative + eloquen(t-)s, eloquent: see eloquent.
 

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/ɪnˈɛləkwənt/
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