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But the M�con Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water�and given the solution as a rectal drip.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seen from this point of view, it is evident that all our knowledge is fundamentally theoretical, and that the conception of practical knowledge is logically unprecise.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

These observations of mine are admittedly casual and unprecise.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The observations of psychology are always rather unprecise.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

Presently we turned up byways, over which the prickly-pear and red valerian broke in profuse and unprecise beauty—fleshy-leaved creepers, too, as of a house-leek turned passion-flower, over-crowned all with scarlet blotches of cunningly placed colour.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)