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vaguely

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vague  (vg)
adj. vagu·er, vagu·est
1. Not clearly expressed; inexplicit.
2. Not thinking or expressing oneself clearly.
3. Lacking definite shape, form, or character; indistinct: saw a vague outline of a building through the fog.
4. Not clear in meaning or application. See Synonyms at ambiguous.
5. Indistinctly felt, perceived, understood, or recalled; hazy: a vague uneasiness.

[French, from Old French, wandering, from Latin vagus.]

vaguely adv.
vagueness n.
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Adv.1.vaguely - in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily"

vaguely
adverb 1. slightly, rather, sort of (informal) kind of (informal) a little, a bit, somewhat, moderately, faintly, dimly, to some extent, kinda (informal)
Translations
vaguely [ˈveɪglɪ] advvagamente
vaguely [ˈveɪglɪ] advvaguement
vaguely [ˈveɪglɪ] vague adv (unclearly) → vage, unbestimmt;
(slightly) → in etwa
vaguely [ˈveɪglɪ] advvagamente


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And yet, while it frightened her, she was vaguely stirred with pride in him.
Vaguely, too, I remember, my father carried me in his arms to the trees on the edge of the field, while all the world reeled and swung about me, and I was aware of deadly nausea mingled with an appalling conviction of sin.
By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.
 
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