inflect
verb (used with object)
to alter, adapt, or modulate (the voice).
inflective
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a word derived from
inflect.
Example Sentences
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It would have been equally disastrous to play the lines straight with out inflective italics, thus pretending that they are not unutterably silly, which they are.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relying on single lines of dialogue, he produced instant repartee in which talk became a blindingly fast game of inflective one-upmanship rather than a declaration of meaning or a display of passion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Using his own inflective emphases, he describes her as a "protestant" and a "nation-alist."
From Time Magazine Archive
The inflective -m of whom is felt as a drag upon the rhetorical effectiveness of the word.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
C. March 10d. 00h. 20m. in the morning: the Air heavy and inflective.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
