See incoherent on Wiktionary
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"text": "When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation."
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"ref": "1599, Ralph Brooke, A Discouerie of Certaine Errours Published in Print in the Much Commended Britannia, London, page 35:",
"text": "By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.",
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"text": "1765, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Book 4, Section 4, p. 103, note z,\n[…] this historian of men and manners goes on in the same rambling incoherent manner […]"
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"ref": "1908, Henry James, chapter XV, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2833), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:",
"text": "[…] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent.",
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"ref": "1980, Barry Unsworth, Pascali’s Island, Penguin, published 1988, page 154:",
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"text": "The historian […] is a sort of novelist, but one who instead of inventing plot and character is obliged to discover them; who instead of setting characters in motion against one another with foreknowledge of their natures and destinies tries to guess at what often incoherent characters were up to amid a distraction of lies and suppressions.",
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"ref": "1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, The Epistle to the Reader:",
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"ref": "1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 2, p. 110:",
"text": "That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.",
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"ref": "1696, John Sergeant, The Method to Science, London, Book 3, pp. 228-229:",
"text": "[…] sooner, may all the Material World crumble into Incoherent Atoms, or relapse into the Abyss of Nothingness, than that any Conclusion, thus deduced, can be False […]",
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"ref": "1888, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, published 1906, page 25:",
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"ref": "1961, James Baldwin, James Baldwin: Collected Essays, New York: Library of America, published 1998, page 223:",
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"ref": "1969, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 8, in The Left Hand of Darkness, New York: Ace, published 2010:",
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"ref": "2002, Julian Barnes, chapter 1, in Something to Declare, New York: Knopf, page 10:",
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"ref": "1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 2, p. 110:",
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"ref": "1696, John Sergeant, The Method to Science, London, Book 3, pp. 228-229:",
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"ref": "1888, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, published 1906, page 25:",
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"ref": "1961, James Baldwin, James Baldwin: Collected Essays, New York: Library of America, published 1998, page 223:",
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"ref": "1969, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 8, in The Left Hand of Darkness, New York: Ace, published 2010:",
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