inarticulate
adjective
lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech.
inarticulateness
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a word derived from
inarticulate.
Example Sentences
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When we’re aspiring, inarticulateness isn’t a sign of unreasonableness or incapacity.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
She exults in Sophocles’s “Antigone,” with the title character’s defiant and enduring mourning, and holds up John Goodman’s eulogy of Steve Buscemi in “The Big Lebowski” as a perfect parody of the form’s heartfelt inarticulateness.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2017
These characters' inarticulateness reflects less on their working-class background than on the weak writing and acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2015
Instead, he retreats into a kind of vagueness, a cloud of hurt inarticulateness.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2011
Bull had reached a point of inarticulateness, and he was demonstrating a maneuver by using his hands as the aircraft.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
