vaguely

[ veyg-lee ]

/ ˈveɪg li /

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in a way that is unclear, imprecise, or uncertain: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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Origin of vaguely

vague + -ly

OTHER WORDS FROM vaguely

un·vague·ly, adverb

Words nearby vaguely

vagotropic, vagrancy, vagrant, vagrom, vague, vaguely, vagus, vagus nerve, Váh, vahana, vahine

How to use vaguely in a sentence

If the show’s other allovers are vaguely floral, “Diagonal” is tectonic.
In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA|Mark Jenkins|November 20, 2020|Washington Post
The public doesn’t understand which activities are safe, and city and state officials vaguely warn that worse is yet to come.
Restaurants and the People Who Work in Them Need a Bailout. Let’s Finally Give Them One.|Meghan McCarron|November 19, 2020|Eater
It’s one of several manzanitas that once grew on San Francisco’s serpentine barrens, dry outcroppings laden with heavy metals from greenish, vaguely snakeskin-textured rocks.
How passion, luck and sweat saved some of North America’s rarest plants|Susan Milius|November 5, 2020|Science News
While Thacher attacked FDR’s record, the 800 people at the rally heard Johnson vaguely promise policies that would help Maryland farmers find a market for their products.
The strange, one-of-a-kind political campaign that almost landed Walter Johnson in Congress|Frederic J. Frommer|October 29, 2020|Washington Post

Style Transfer works like the Prisma app that was popular a few years ago, only it can take the style of a piece of art and vaguely translate it to your picture.
Photoshop’s Neural Filters can alter people’s expressions in convincing—and nightmarish—ways|Stan Horaczek|October 22, 2020|Popular-Science
ThinkProgress calls the premise “uncomfortable and vaguely sad.”
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism|Samantha Allen|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It actually kept the government open all year and manage to pass something vaguely resembling a budget.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive|Ben Jacobs|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For most of his career, Savalas (1922-1994) could pass for a vaguely exciting yet essentially non-threatening “exotic ethnic.”
This One Picture of Telly Savalas Refutes All Fears That Progress Has Ended|Nick Gillespie|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Missions” essentially consist of annihilating all means of transportation in small, vaguely Middle Eastern/African cities.
I Am The Hague! Sylvester Stallone's 'Expendable' Wet Dream|Amy Zimmerman|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He glanced aside, and saw an exceedingly pretty, dark face, which looked vaguely familiar.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
The fact that her fortune was vaguely threatened did not cause her anxiety: she scarcely realized it.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The thought of dying had not yet even vaguely occurred to him, though, for that matter, he had no fear of death.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
There was a faint, pleasant odor lingering in the room—a vaguely familiar odor.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Tewnes, Tunis; vaguely put for some distant and wealthy town; see ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer