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ill-defined

adjective as in fuzzy

adjective as in loose

adjective as in ill-defined

adjective as in fuzzy

adjective as in general

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Example Sentences

But according to Wyden, the bill is “full of holes, riddled with vagueness and ill-defined terms.”

“Natural-born citizen” is an ill-defined term that has not been used in a statute since 1790.

The case against Rosen and Weissman was so amorphous and ill defined that it was eventually thrown out.

We are left with a rather opaque and enormous firm carrying substantial ill-defined risk.

They are trying to help President Obama realize the still ill-defined post-partisan vision he promised the American people.

Its powers are ill-defined; I could but treat with its members as with private individuals, besides which they are Spaniards.

Then, in about 1870, came the discovery of the diamond-fields, situated on the then still ill-defined western limits of the State.

In the distance behind Gommecourt there is some ill-defined rising ground forming gullies and ravines.

Clouded: Having a pale ground, with ill-defined patches of a deeper tint (Fig. 145, c).

Some of the above, as the notion of elementary and celestial nature, and rarity, are vague and ill defined.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill-defined, such as: murky, unclear, vague, clouded, dim, and indistinct.

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

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