ambiguous
adjective
open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal.
ambiguously
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a word derived from
ambiguous.
Example Sentences
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The government ambiguously “welcomed” the plan, while keeping the details and the army’s monthly progress reports secret.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Ever since the second season of "Yellowjackets" wrapped last spring, there's been a gaping hole in ambiguously queer television content.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
Children who rejected or responded ambiguously to their mother's cognitive reappraisal advice actually reported more adaptive coping in middle school than those who accepted it.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Rather, counsel objected to ambiguously worded requests for information.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
It has, to be sure, linkages of various kinds, arrangements with outside universities for certain graduate programs, and it adheres delicately, somewhat ambiguously, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute just up the street.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
