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inexact

adjective as in inaccurate

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Finding the exact threshold for gumbo weather is an inexact science, but my grandfather pegs it as colder than 50 degrees.

They only tracked one week of spending, and I prorated their electricity and power costs, so this is still an inexact calculator.

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Castillo or Swihart do not fit neatly into that inexact formula.

Danish officials crunching similar data slightly differently estimate that it is 36 percent more contagious in their country, although they say their numbers are still so small that the estimates may be inexact.

It’s a complicated, inexact process that could be untangled by a few extra doses of transparency.

Given the nature of the crimes and the climate in which they were committed, the numbers themselves are inexact.

The recipe is inexact; a crazy mix of luck, audacity, and moxie.

The margin of error for the rather inexact dating process was 250 years.

This again is inexact, since there are no precise figures of population that cover the period.

Now the intensity of a sound indicates its extent only by accident, and therefore in an inexact manner.

All conclusions which we derive from visual acuteness become very inexact as soon as it is lowered.

This is only another instance of the singularly inexact and haphazard ways of the Admiralty in those days.

The conditions which the subtlety of Ming-shu imposed ceased to bind, for their corollary was inexact.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inexact, such as: imprecise, ambiguous, and vague.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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