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ill-defined

[il-di-fahynd] / ˈɪl dɪˈfaɪnd /


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The space was dark, ill defined, the edges fading into misty nothingness — the antithesis of the sharply defined spaces my friend preferred.

From Nature • Jul. 21, 2020

But little in medicine is as ill defined or as anecdotal as addiction treatment.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

Mr Butt's lawyers will also be challenging the definition of "extremism" under the Prevent strategy, which they say is ill defined.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2016

On Saturday, Mr. Bach acknowledged that WADA’s role had been ill defined, bemoaning “a number of deficiencies we had to suffer from in the recent past.”

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2016

As has been urged so many times before, these types have boundaries that are hazy and ill defined; they overlap in many cases.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton




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