Definitions
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- In an amorphous manner.
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- adverb In an
amorphous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Standard of living is, admittedly, an amorphously relative term.
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The word is that generic advice on important matters, news of improbable scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, dubious fiats on the subject of maintaining optimum bodily health -- essentially any amorphously authoritative declaration whatsoever -- can be treated as gospel by the intended recipient, no question about it.
John Baxter: Information From Anonymous Sources 100% Reliable, They Say 2010
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We talked amorphously about taxes as the price of a civilized society.
How I saved the iPhone, and Christmas amuchmoreexotic 2008
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The word is that generic advice on important matters, news of improbable scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, dubious fiats on the subject of maintaining optimum bodily health -- essentially any amorphously authoritative declaration whatsoever -- can be treated as gospel by the intended recipient, no question about it.
John Baxter: Information From Anonymous Sources 100% Reliable, They Say 2010
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V. Quine argued against when he took himself to be arguing against the typical possibilist realism (Quine 1976), and it is arguably the view many possible-worlds theorists adumbrated, however vaguely and amorphously, as the representative possibilist realist theory before Lewis forcefully articulated his own version.
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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In fact, the click-on “universal man” is so amorphously shaped he has less reproductive organs than Ken-Barbie.
What's the Connection?: “Click” reproductive services back into our healthcare (and education)! Debra W. Haffner 2009
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Voldemort was effective as an unstoppable, amorphously evil force, when you had no idea what form he would take, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was Ralph Fiennes who would be stepping into the role.
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Of course, the Geneva Conventions, still stands against shoddy governmental practices even when approved by those on high, or perhaps, it was all approved by the amorphously unknowns or “methadonically two-fisted” culprits?
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The Bible Belt in America is an amorphously supposed geography that is the American South, where ostensibly one will find greatest social reliance on the what is within the Bible, as a guide for social norms and behavior.
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Even as the majority opinion admits that one had to first enroll with a militia officer, it defines the well regulated militia amorphously, as "citizens subject to organization."
Paul Helmke: The Second Amendment: A Well Regulated Militia 2008
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