inconsecutive
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inconsecutively adjective
- inconsecutiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of inconsecutive
First recorded in 1830–40; in- 3 + consecutive
Example Sentences
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His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on�fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish.
From Time Magazine Archive
From first to last, in inconsecutive essays, in the records of sentimental touring, in fiction and in verse, he has embodied the outer and the inner autobiography.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
I doubt not your stricture on the book as sometimes unconnected and inconsecutive is just.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
It is so rambling and inconsecutive that it takes more than one reading to understand it.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
An inconsecutive finish to correct a mistake of Old Jack's.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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