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vaguely

[veyg-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way that is unclear, imprecise, or uncertain: The sound was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't identify it.

    They've been talking vaguely about maybe buying a house there one of these days.

    The sound was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't identify it.



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Other Word Forms

  • unvaguely adverb
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Suddenly, we’re doing a documentary, or we’re doing a balm for what you wish government was like or what you vaguely remember it was like.

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From then on, I was game to try anything with a vaguely ranch-adjacent profile—a curiosity that inevitably leads to questions about where, exactly, ranch begins and ends.

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Palombo describes his life since being prosecuted as a "Kafka nightmare" where he could barely understand the accusations made against him, with no sense of having done anything even vaguely wrong.

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One plausible reading holds that Britain’s two-party system is now in terminal collapse, with a chaotic reconfiguration to follow and a long, grinding war between three vaguely normal parties and the neofascist new right.

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It’s like apple pie in smoothie form, but with enough fiber to feel vaguely virtuous.

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