inflect
verb (used with object)
to alter, adapt, or modulate (the voice).
uninflected
-
a word derived from
inflect.
Example Sentences
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Krasner’s small, tight accretions of repetitive marks and shapes seem airless and uninflected; even the densest of Pollock’s early, layered pours pulse and breathe, his touch liberated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Philosophically, realpolitik was a belief that a dispassionate examination of any situation, uninflected by ideology, was the most effective way to grasp the array of forces present in a particular historical moment.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
His voice, too, takes on that familiar dismissive snarl, the uninflected basso growl that could make even the most brazen counterfactuals sound somehow authoritative.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2018
Baritone Clinton Curtis, who traipses between the classical and pop worlds, adds cool, uninflected lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2018
Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
