inchoately
- a word derived from inchoate.
Example Sentences
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We segue from Winston’s first writing down his inchoately rebellious thoughts to a group of latter-day readers debating his diary’s origins and meanings.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2017
Or go right back to the origins of performance at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 when the Dadaist poet Hugo Ball babbled inchoately at the nighthawks of Zurich.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2015
It’s not that I didn’t make my share of mistakes, or act stupidly and inchoately, but it was embarrassing, not traumatizing.
From Newsweek • Mar. 20, 2015
The way that we address it, whether coherently or inchoately, is in turn musical.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2013
The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
