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
An inconsecutive finish to correct a mistake of Old Jack's.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
Both discussions are fragmentary and inconsecutive, but there emerges from them at intervals a clear statement of principles.
From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross
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)
But the conversation was commonplace, inconsecutive, shifty, and vague, and it was two hours before anything came within shot: all this time not a soul suspected the ambushed fowler.
From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles
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