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View synonyms for vaguely

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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ThinkProgress calls the premise “uncomfortable and vaguely sad.”

It actually kept the government open all year and manage to pass something vaguely resembling a budget.

He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.

For most of his career, Savalas (1922-1994) could pass for a vaguely exciting yet essentially non-threatening “exotic ethnic.”

“Missions” essentially consist of annihilating all means of transportation in small, vaguely Middle Eastern/African cities.

He glanced aside, and saw an exceedingly pretty, dark face, which looked vaguely familiar.

The fact that her fortune was vaguely threatened did not cause her anxiety: she scarcely realized it.

The thought of dying had not yet even vaguely occurred to him, though, for that matter, he had no fear of death.

There was a faint, pleasant odor lingering in the room—a vaguely familiar odor.

Tewnes, Tunis; vaguely put for some distant and wealthy town; see ll.

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