ambiguous
Example Sentences
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It’s a buzzy yet ambiguous term, and its very lack of definition means it might already appear deflated, depending on the metrics used to evaluate it.
From Barron's
“If a statute is ambiguous, then it’s the court that makes the call about what the statute means, not the agency,” Pettit explained.
From Salon
The characters are not in themselves complicated or ambiguous; it’s as psychologically simple as “Star Wars” was, to start — and you know how that worked out.
From Los Angeles Times
He’s been ambiguous about the answer, saying in an interview last Friday that he’ll know it “when I feel it in my bones.”
The movie cries out for a final, clarifying, knockout development like the one in “The Sixth Sense,” but what it delivers is far more frustratingly ambiguous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
