Intelligibly

And often, when it takes effort to speak a word intelligibly, the wrong word comes out because too much of my focus is on the effort of talking instead of the thinking of what to say. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Madrid, if you please! after a few weeks 'acquaintance with her husband, who doubtless wrote his name intelligibly in the registrar's book, but does not prove himself much the hero when he drives a pen, even for so little as the signing of his name! ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Hang superexcellence! but we know those moanings over the troubles of a married woman; we know their sources, know their goal, or else we are the fiction-puppet or the Bedlamite; and she is a married woman, married at the British Embassy, Madrid, if you please! after a few weeks 'acquaintance with her husband, who doubtless wrote his name intelligibly in the registrar's book, but does not prove himself much the hero when he drives a pen, even for so little as the signing of his name! ❋ George Meredith (1868)

-- As revealed in issue #17, Konvikt was deprived of the ability to speak (intelligibly, that is) as a part of the criminal proceedings against him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- As revealed in issue #17, Konvikt was deprived of the ability to speak (intelligibly, that is) as a part of the criminal proceedings against him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The advance staffer in charge of the audio worried a gust would be picked up by the microphone and drown out Morrison as he gave an answer the campaign would want broadcast intelligibly on television. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

A more appropriate guide at present may be the Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854): a work of persuasion that explains intelligibly a policy of reform whose effects lie in the future. ❋ David Bromwich (2010)

That awkward man communicating anything intelligibly seemed preposterous, and for him to do so under fire brought science fiction to mind. ❋ Haroon Moghul (2011)

He was a natural linguist, and he kept notebooks, making a scientific study of the workers 'slang or argot, until he could talk quite intelligibly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How come I could receive it, intelligibly, I mean? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. ❋ Unknown (2009)