ill-defined

Example Sentences

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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

Size-distributions of pandemics, floods, forest fires, earthquakes, wars, terrorist attacks, crimes and IT investments, e.g., have no population mean, or the mean is ill defined due to infinite variance.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

The job was ill defined and Cathy Ashton was wary of the press.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2013

But there was one part of each picture, ill defined and missing.

From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan