semi-articulate

"I was just part of this greater thing, or place, or force, or energy," he drivels, like a semi-articulate hippy.

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review 2011

Billy is a motherless 11-year-old boy living in squalor with his grandmother, who is senile, and his father and older brother, striking miners who smolder with semi-articulate rage.

A Clumsy Mix of Art and Politics 2008

I think of myself as pretty agreeable, the sort of person who nods a lot in response to whomever is speaking and who peppers her responses with a lot of ‘yeah-yeahs’ and who generally expresses at least some sympathy with any semi-articulate and semi-reasonable opinion.

Rooms With A Skew | Her Bad Mother 2006

The level of sublime and semi-articulate idiocy that these two characters achieve is all too recognizable, as life can certainly be tough in Orange County!

Buzzine » Jenna Elfman and Lisa Nova in “Orange County” 2008

And at that very moment, the sky opened, the seas turned to blood, and a torrent of frogs rained down – while Bush verbalized (albeit in choppy, semi-articulate idiom) the very essence of what I had just been thinking.

There are more than two options for Iran! 2007

I think of myself as pretty agreeable, the sort of person who nods a lot in response to whomever is speaking and who peppers her responses with a lot of ‘yeah-yeahs’ and who generally expresses at least some sympathy with any semi-articulate and semi-reasonable opinion.

Rooms With A Skew 2006

I think of myself as pretty agreeable, the sort of person who nods a lot in response to whomever is speaking and who peppers her responses with a lot of ‘yeah-yeahs’ and who generally expresses at least some sympathy with any semi-articulate and semi-reasonable opinion.

Archive 2006-10-29 2006

In a way Protorov felt sorry for the man as he heard the semi-articulate babbling created by the multitude of sera the doctor had shot into the subject.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

Instead, the usual semi-articulate conspiracy which aims to saddle Hitler with the responsibility for every defeat in the field which the German Army sustained has evolved a conventional fiction — to the effect that the Army was "prevented" from breaking out by Hitler's expressly denying them this course of action.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

She rose from her chair and caught up the baby who was holding out both arms to her and trying in his semi-articulate way to indicate his preference of her lap to the basket.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller