vague

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.