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  • a  (of the voice) not inflected
    uninflected words
    monotonic uninflected speech
  • a  not inflected
    `boy' and `swim' are uninflected English words
  • a  expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection

  • Out went the uninflected blah blah; in rushed the dewy-eyed rah rah.
  • A distressing, uninflected righteousness has defined this Administration from the start, and it hasn't been limited to the President.
  • He just wants to tell the story, in uninflected, police-procedural fashion; the movie is like a flatfoot following a suspicious trail with no special intuition but an admirable .
Quotes

  • Naomi Wolf in Patriot Post
    Or when Al Gore's fashion consultant Naomi Wolf described the foreign-policy analysis of Jeane Kirkpatrick as being "uninflected by the experiences of the female body"?
  • Chuck Logan in Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Essentially, I did the research and set up the machinery for the story,Logan said. "I wrote what I call uninflected narrative so that John could take it and put it in his own voice."

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