vagueness
Example Sentences
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A U.S. official stressed to us the vagueness of that formulation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
Some say there is no need, because the strategic vagueness that exists already is part of the very deterrent.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025
Zug said the bill's "extreme cruelty" grounds is what most alarmed her because of its vagueness and implication that non-extreme cruelty would be insufficient grounds for divorce.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2025
The vagueness lies in the focus of the negation—which phrase the writer had in mind as falsifying the whole sentence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing vagueness
Novel Study: Invisible Man, Chapter 15–Epilogue
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The Suffix -ness, Part 3
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