Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a vague, uncertain, or unsettled manner; without definiteness or distinctness.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a vague manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a vague manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a vague way
Etymologies
- vague + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is a word vaguely familiar yet disturbingly foreign to me, its meaning an anomaly.”
“An expression vaguely reminiscent of appreciation crossed her face.”
“He had read himself to sleep the night before, a book chosen because he found the title vaguely familiar, but the choice had been poor and haunted his dreams.”
“Yet the certainty in his expression vaguely frightened her.”
“There is a possibility that Appian has used the term vaguely: but there is no real difficulty in conceiving the _municipia_ to be meant.”
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
“Szajba, which vaguely translates as "something between madness and fury," attracts a young, well-coifed crowd with its airy '60s living-room-style ambience and vast selection of cocktails, showily mixed by an eager bar staff.”
International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
“Just because the articles you linked to are using the term vaguely doesn't mean that I am.”
“Just because the articles you linked to are using the term vaguely doesn't mean that I am. the extreme examples include charging farmers for their livestock's methane gas output.”
“And John Hughes, because my title vaguely reminds me of The Breakfast Club tag line about a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess and a criminal.”
“The last translation used a term vaguely familiar to Alex.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vaguely’.
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Adverbia
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Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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