Definitions
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- adverb In a manner like that of a
cloud orhaze . - adverb As if viewed through a cloud or haze.
- adverb
Vaguely , without clearpurpose or specificintention .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a nebulous and indefinite manner
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Examples
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The status-quo agreement is based on claims of historical use, which are only nebulously enforceable.
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The status-quo agreement is based on claims of historical use, which are only nebulously enforceable.
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In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined "special interests" happy.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Prop 23: Green Jobs vs. Dirty Energy Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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The Jan. 24 Metro article “Virginia anticipates sharp criticism over disabled” presented a faceless, one-sided viewpoint, nebulously referring to “civil rights” issues that supposedly favor deinstitutionalization but missing the actual lives of some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Living with a disability, in a caring setting Bethesda Bradford Wood 2011
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These were hard, enduring songs to outlast tough times, and that quality is something that Welch has unpicked and refined on her five albums to date, a process that's evidently far more intellectually arousing than a directive to nebulously "keep it simple".
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In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined "special interests" happy.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Prop 23: Green Jobs vs. Dirty Energy Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined "special interests" happy.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Prop 23: Green Jobs vs. Dirty Energy Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined "special interests" happy.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Prop 23: Green Jobs Vs. Dirty Energy Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined "special interests" happy.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Prop 23: Green Jobs vs. Dirty Energy Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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She had never conceived of the form of God except as nebulously naked, and the thought - association was startling.
Chapter 4 2010
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