inarticulacy

inarticulate | American Dictionary

inarticulate
adjective
us/ˌɪn·ɑrˈtɪk·jə·lət/
unable to express feelings or ideas in words, or communicated in a way that is difficult to understand:
He refers to them as inarticulate mountain people.
inarticulate cries of rage

Examples of inarticulate

inarticulate
If hate speech were really inarticulate, it would cease to be understandable, meaningful, or objectionable.
In this way, the holistic and inarticulate imperative of knowledge by acquaintance becomes conditional on given criteria.
Though an orator, he is painfully shy and inarticulate.
He stumbled, inarticulate and inchoate, unable to defend the abysmal record of his government.
We limited our analysis to articulate and inarticulate brachiopods, trilobites, anthozoans, and bivalves.
He shows, moreover, how we can use bodies as texts and can allow scars, deformities and tattoos to speak for people who were generally inarticulate.
I may remain in an inarticulate state, in a state of intelligent feeling.
But then, fighting words simply express, without articulating, the speaker's perspective, and they invite various inarticulate responses.
Other senses may indeed furnish signs; and yet those signs have no more right than inarticulate sounds to be thought a language.
Only in the thick of the rescue action is he musically inarticulate and improbably dashing.
Their observations are highly generalized, occasionally remarkably inarticulate.
To speak the truth of one's feelings and desires, to "share" them as the saying has it, is not merely a rendering audible of the inarticulate murmurings of the soul.
Yet, when you get right down to it, all instances of ordinary discourse, even among the most inept, inarticulate, untalented practitioners, are to some degree creative responses to novel situations.
She is, quite literally, rendered inarticulate.
The intellectual is thus identified here as a member of an elite, distinguished from the mass of inarticulate illiterates who form the rest of the population.
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