unprecise

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But the M�con Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water�and given the solution as a rectal drip.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seen from this point of view, it is evident that all our knowledge is fundamentally theoretical, and that the conception of practical knowledge is logically unprecise.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

History does not usually busy itself with little men and small facts, and is therefore often obscure, unprecise, vague, tiresome.

From Characters and events of Roman History by Ferrero, Frances Lance

Presently we turned up byways, over which the prickly-pear and red valerian broke in profuse and unprecise beauty—fleshy-leaved creepers, too, as of a house-leek turned passion-flower, over-crowned all with scarlet blotches of cunningly placed colour.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

On the other hand, the "witness" observes without method, and reports in unprecise language; it is not known whether he has taken the necessary precautions.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey