unprecise

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But the M�con Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water�and given the solution as a rectal drip.

From Time Magazine Archive

These observations of mine are admittedly casual and unprecise.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The observations of psychology are always rather unprecise.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

History does not usually busy itself with little men and small facts, and is therefore often obscure, unprecise, vague, tiresome.

From Characters and events of Roman History by Ferrero, Frances Lance

On the other hand, the "witness" observes without method, and reports in unprecise language; it is not known whether he has taken the necessary precautions.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey