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