vague

[veɪɡ]

Definition:
1. Not clearly understood or expressed.
2. Not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished.
3. Lacking clarity or distinctness.

Use 'vague' in a sentence:

1. He looked at her vague shape through the frosted glass.
2. He had a vague impression of rain pounding on the packed earth.
3. The letter was deliberately couched in very vague terms.
4. They had only a vague idea where the place was.
5. 'Things are moving ahead.' — I found that statement vague and unclear.
6. His eyes were always so vague when he looked at her.
7. Waite's memory of that first meeting was vague.
8. She's a little vague about her plans for next year.
9. A word such as "harm" is vague.
10. She had married a charming but rather vague Englishman.
11. He was accused of being deliberately vague.
12. The President's hopes for the country were high-minded, but too vague.
13. By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague.
14. A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.
15. Democratic leaders under election pressure tend to respond with vague promises of action.
16. He had a hard professional competence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his adopted country, an in-depth learning uncorrupted by vague idealism.
17. You have a vague sense of guilt that you aren't paying close attention.
18. I kept my statement intentionally vague.
19. You could just see vague blobs of faces.
20. Vague objections to the system solidified into firm opposition.
21. They have only a vague idea of the amount of water available.
22. Dr. Velayati gave a vague but negative response.
23. A lot of the talk was apparently vague and general.
24. Far-away objects may look vague.
25. A word such as "harm" is vague (what about emotional harm? Is replacing a human employee harm?), and abstract concepts present coding problems.
26. It's a vague formulation that leaves much to the discretion of local authorities.
27. The president's hopes for the country were high-minded, but too vague.
28. The question was vague, giving the interviewee enough rope to hang herself.
29. The politicians made vague promises about tax cuts.
30. We had only a vague description of the attacker.
31. It is incomplete if it omits key ideas, makes vague reference to key ideas, or demonstrates limited development of important information.
32. Despite these vague categories, one should not claim unequivocally that hostility between recognizable classes cannot be legitimately observed.
33. He was conscious of that vague feeling of irritation again.
34. The background behind the woman is pretty vague.
35. While the statement is vague, it represents one starting point.
36. The wording is so vague that no one actually knows what it means.
37. Something about the dress or appearance of the man had stirred a vague memory in him.
38. The charges were vague and imprecise.
39. She had only a vague notion of what might happen.
40. The description was pretty vague.
41. In the darkness they could see the vague outline of a church.
42. His vague manner concealed a brilliant mind.
43. Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries.
44. The bus was a vague shape in the distance.
45. The phrasing of the question was vague.
46. He was vague, however, about just what U.S. forces might actually do.
47. The description was pretty vague, so the police couldn't figure out the portrait of the criminal.