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adj. - Not asked merely for effect with no answer expected

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  • During some years I hoped that she DID live; and I suppose that, in the literal and unrhetorical use of the word
  • Dole, this unrhetorical, almost anti-rhetorical man, is seeking an office whose constitutional powers are weak but whose rhetorical potential is great.
  • And, in that respect, this somewhat unrhetorical inaugural address may be appropriate, because this is -- what is going on now is too big for rhetoric.
  • Pablo said to him seriously and Robert Jordan saw how unrhetorical was the question.
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