as in mute
unable to speak
the sudden rumblings of an earthquake rendered people inarticulate with fear
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But a simmering undercurrent of Democratic uneasiness dramatically boiled over after a shocking debate performance in late June, when a frail and distracted-looking Biden delivered raspy, halting and inarticulate answers versus Trump.
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Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
Playing the 81-year-old president as aghast, confused, and inarticulate could easily amount to an unkind impersonation, but in Carvey’s masterful hands, there is zero heightening — only dead-on accuracy.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
The pod-person version of Sam is particularly unsettling — a swaying, inarticulate mass of flesh whose only purposes are to kill and to die — and that level of grotesquerie is hard to shake.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
The Zen movies that don’t announce themselves as such — and sometimes don’t even intend themselves as such — can often be blockbusters, resonating across a mass audience that senses the dharma at a deep and inarticulate level.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
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Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
Playing the 81-year-old president as aghast, confused, and inarticulate could easily amount to an unkind impersonation, but in Carvey’s masterful hands, there is zero heightening — only dead-on accuracy.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
The pod-person version of Sam is particularly unsettling — a swaying, inarticulate mass of flesh whose only purposes are to kill and to die — and that level of grotesquerie is hard to shake.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
The Zen movies that don’t announce themselves as such — and sometimes don’t even intend themselves as such — can often be blockbusters, resonating across a mass audience that senses the dharma at a deep and inarticulate level.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
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“Inarticulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inarticulate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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