uninflected

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of the voice) not inflected
    monotonic uninflected speech
    uninflected words
  2. expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
  3. not inflected
    `boy' and `swim' are uninflected English words
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How To Use uninflected In A Sentence

  • monotonic uninflected speech
  • Yet as the novel proceeds and Robert gains freedom and position, he adopts the uninflected voice that corresponds to his new middle-class status.
  • But Eve speaks for herself, softly, in a tone of uninflected innocence: ‘A Martini.’
  • The call-and-response dynamic in this scene allows discrete space for dialect and uninflected speech, but clearly emphasizes the mingling of the two voices in a communal speech act.
  • Even in the fierce cauldron of the sports arena and on the hotplate of romance, she keeps heading back to the middle, where her dialogue sounds roughly as uninflected as a library conversation.
  • A flat voice might be one that is emotionless or uninflected, and American speech is stereotypically uninflected by comparison to British speech.
  • Eventually, Misa corrected herself and stopped using uninflected verbs in the [I'm + X] pattern.
  • `Ellel, Empress," they chanted together in their metallic, uninflected voices. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The bloody sergeant's report is delivered by Dan Moran on his back in a kind of machine-made monotone so uninflected that the ear refuses to digest it.
  • ‘She's yours,’ Chris said and I thought I heard a hint of amusement behind the uninflected words.
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