inexact

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Inexact language about where the money would go, she said, is one reason for her opposition.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

Inexact vocabularians have reckoned the average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inexact Definitions.+—If the distinguishing characteristics are not properly selected, the definition though logical in form may be inexact, because the differentia do not exclude all but the term to be defined.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

Inexact execution on the one part, would naturally beget dissatisfaction and complaints on the other; and an instrument intended to strengthen our connection, might thus become the means of loosening it.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Inexact, in-egz-akt′, adj. not precisely correct or true.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various