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  • adjective Inadequately defined.

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under- +‎ defined

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Examples

  • Unfortunately, I found the characters underdefined, and I sometimes had a hard time telling what was going on without confirming dialogue.

    Graphic Novels From the Slush Pile: Cross Country, Dolltopia, Jam in the Band, Looking Up, Legacy, Experts » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • And there was something about the relationship betwee Carly and Greg that seemed a little off or perhaps underdefined to me.

    Archive 2009-04-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • And there was something about the relationship betwee Carly and Greg that seemed a little off or perhaps underdefined to me.

    Drama The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • This is why the cultural-relativism-branch of “multiculturalism” a term that is woefully underdefined seems to me to be nothing more than aculturalism — an absence of the normative values that define a culture.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » DoJ’s Defense of Yoo 2009

  • Obama himself left the purpose of Organizing for America rather underdefined in his video introducing the organization.

    Obama's Networks and the Stimulus Scola, Nancy 2009

  • So far, what I will blog about remains somewhat underdefined in my nebulous little big head.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • So far, what I will blog about remains somewhat underdefined in my nebulous little big head.

    Welcome! and justifications 2006

  • The relationships are underdefined, and there's little in the way of midsummer sexual swelter.

    Evening Standard - News 2010

  • For instance, we are meant to feel for Dickens's neglected wife Catherine - yet the role, imbued with elegant unhappiness by Niamh Cusack, is underdefined.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

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