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Discover LudwigThe word 'inarticulate' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe someone who is unable to express themselves clearly, either because they have difficulty forming the words or because they lack the necessary vocabulary. For example, "He was so flustered that he was completely inarticulate in the job interview."
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inarticulate
adjective
Not articulated in normal words
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I maintain my cheerful demeanour, though, anxious to chat with you and show I am not the inarticulate buffoon you evidently suppose I am.
A man who's been working at the heart of government for six years and who was once a journalist for the FT can't be described as inarticulate.
I'm empathetic with anything that's clumsy or inarticulate".
At the performance I saw back in 2011, this laboriously practised spontaneity from the performers went unrewarded by at least one audience member, who, after an especially inarticulate riff from a character who started a phrase several times, lamented to her neighbour: "The problem with coming to previews is that the actors sometimes haven't learned their lines".
I'm sat baffled and saddened that a misfired inarticulate quote of mine has branded me worst gay ever," he said on Twitter.
But on March 1st one question rendered him nearly inarticulate.
The first English grammarians never had to hear an inarticulate Roman teenager butcher his cases; they had only the works of great writers to judge by).As it happens, the rule "use the nominative case in the predicate nominative position" (It is I) is not just Greco-Latin.
The traditional opposition parties, all led by ageing men, tend to be weak, inarticulate and ill-organised.
Instead, unnamed presidential staffers said he was too deferential to uniformed commanders, too silent in councils of war and inarticulate as a spokesman for Team Obama's policies, notably when it came to the fight against the fanatics of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq.There is something to such grumbling.
British footballers who play for foreign teams might, if they were not completely inarticulate in any language, be able to give interviews in the local tongue after the match.
She skilfully depicts the discontinuity between the bursting emotions of men's interior life and the choked, inarticulate bleating that expresses them or fails to.
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