Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an ineloquent manner; without eloquence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Without eloquence.

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  • adverb Without eloquence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner

Etymologies

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ineloquent +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Thankfully, your "Publicist" so ineloquently, detailed every lie, and some half truths that will be the evidence for prosecution.

    Peter Sumaruck II 2010

  • This US comment from Graphic Design Rants (20/4/07) sums things up pretty neatly, if somewhat ineloquently:

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jonathan 2008

  • This US comment from Graphic Design Rants (20/4/07) sums things up pretty neatly, if somewhat ineloquently:

    Double standards from the design industry Jonathan 2008

  • But at least the Demonstrations allow me to wax less ineloquently than others of similar proclivities.

    Wolfram Blog : Equations or Exploding Teapots? 2007

  • No matter how eloquently or ineloquently he handles his favorite ongoing theme -– the role of chance, fate, luck in the universe –- you know it is a 90-minute attempt to escape culpability for that most infamous romantic episode in his life.

    Buzzine » ‘Whatever Works’: Take 2 2009

  • Condescend all you like, Chris, but I think you'll find the majority of us do know what we're talking about however ineloquently many have stated it.

    Harry Potter Delay Evokes Angry Outbursts Amongst Fans « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • What the younger people ineloquently call "sucking face."

    Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004

  • In a country gone mad, cattle and crops would be designated matters of “national security” as an un-elected occupant of the White House ineloquently declared, “the nation has to eat”.

    American Democracy: R.I.P | Letter Never Sent 2002

  • "Say -- honestly?" he asked, ineloquently, with an irrepressible grin.

    Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Now, when she was face to face with his love, so ineloquently expressed, so radically a part of him, she knew that there was nothing in the world, external to him and her, that could enter into their reckonings; but into their reckonings there had not entered the one thing essential.

    Michael 1903

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