unintelligibility

Example Sentences

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Kaufmann opted instead for a consistent legato, sometimes at odds with the orchestra and, in extreme cases, slurring phrases into unintelligibility.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022

But even then, the compensation for one form of unintelligibility is the over-intelligibility of conventional athletic dance, entertaining at first until it becomes numbingly familiar, as is the generally banal, old-fashioned staging.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2018

After showing footage of Giuliani’s interview with Stephanopoulos, Kimmel joked about the unintelligibility of Giuliani’s words.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2018

I thought first of Latka, Andy Kaufman’s immigrant character from some unspecified Eastern European country, and how Sonia’s disordered speech was going to start approaching Latka levels of unintelligibility soon.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

Now I do flatter myself upon so writing, that compositors can have no excuse for blunders, though I am well aware that to be esteemed a Genious, one’s chirography should very nearly approach unintelligibility.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various