vagueness
Example Sentences
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Until now there has been a deliberate vagueness about what France regards as its "vital interests", an attack on which would trigger a nuclear response.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
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
Maybe the vagueness is intentional, or maybe the people demonizing the term don’t actually understand it.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025
The fog blew through the faceless vagueness of its head, yet it was shaped like a man, only deformed and changing, like a man’s shadow.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing vagueness
Novel Study: Invisible Man, Chapter 15–Epilogue
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The Suffix -ness, Part 3
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