He expressed himself imprecisely. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
“Educate me — how does one imprecisely frequent a brothel?”. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
I feel nothing and yet I still can move my face and limbs, imprecisely. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Before this campaign, the term "maverick" was used loosely, imprecisely. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Mailer Likens John McCain To Hillary, Suggests Obama Is All About "Pretty Words"] Reference
Marriage is a cultural construct that imprecisely approximates that variable. From Wordnik.com. [Found: A False Stereotype About Fundamentalists, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Senator Clinton spoke imprecisely and unfortunately to "USA Today" last week. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2008] Reference
Such observations will necessarily be about things that are imprecisely defined. From Wordnik.com. [How to Do Philosophy] Reference
However, can we now draw the conclusion that the momentum is only imprecisely defined?. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncertainty Principle] Reference
Very non-loaded statement, esp. as compared to say the imprecisely caustic articulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Sotomayor, Gates and Race”:] Reference
Primary lactose intolerance is also called, imprecisely, adult-onset lactose intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Sorry, but you write so imprecisely as to be nearly nonsensical, and it results in errors. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Flagellum - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
This is what most Americans very imprecisely mean when we say "black" or "African-American.". From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: On MLK and What Obama Is Not] Reference
He convincingly argues that I, like many others, have been using the term rather imprecisely. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I think you are overestimating the #s who feel that way or perhaps describing it imprecisely. From Wordnik.com. [Biden In South Carolina: "I Need The Republican Party To Get Back Up"] Reference
An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the geographical reach of the rally. From Wordnik.com. [Rally to Restore Authority] Reference
The article also referred imprecisely to the significance of the number of black men in college. From Wordnik.com. [Report on college attendance crisis for black males exaggerated] Reference
There's further fallacy to your argument, in that you use "liberal" imprecisely and inconsistently. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
All stories, I think, are unique to their writers, and fit in specific frameworks only imprecisely. From Wordnik.com. [Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities] Reference
Indeed it would, Henry, and I probably spoke imprecisely at a speech that I gave before the credit unions. From Wordnik.com. ['The Impact Was Larger Than I Expected':] Reference
But, he says, the committee had trouble with the rule as it was proposed because it was written imprecisely. From Wordnik.com. [Doctors Push for More Scans in Stroke Cases] Reference
The history of the Literature Prize appears as a series of attempts to interpret an imprecisely worded will. From Wordnik.com. [Articles - Literature] Reference
The mechanisms for establishing new SOE are currently imprecisely defined and not uniform across government. From Wordnik.com. [Budget Vote Speech by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Alec Erwin, to the National Assembly] Reference
The proxy information is too scarce and likely too imprecisely correlated with temperature on a global scale. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Research « Climate Audit] Reference
These methods are not sacrosanct, but they help us to be "imprecisely right" rather than "precisely be wrong". From Wordnik.com. [Climate change impacts on non-market activities] Reference
His purpose was simply to live with words—with thoughts turned into words, as he somewhat imprecisely put it. From Wordnik.com. [Updike dead at 76] Reference
Languages correspond only imprecisely with political borders, which are designated by the superimposed red lines. From Wordnik.com. [Language Map of Europe] Reference
They refer to stuff in the distant past and they're always used imprecisely and in the latter case insensitively. From Wordnik.com. [Guess What, Establishment. McGinn is the New Licata. Except, He’s the Mayor. « PubliCola] Reference
The man speaks rather imprecisely but basically conveys the same sentiment in a sentence or two that it took Profs. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Hero Ron Paul: Blacks Commit Crimes, Zionists Silence The Opposition] Reference
In fact, the history of the Literature Prize appears as a series of attempts to interpret an imprecisely worded will. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature] Reference
The ancient authors often used words imprecisely, and smeared their meanings across and beyond the Hohfeldian categories. From Wordnik.com. [Rights] Reference
"Indeed, the history of the literature prize is in some ways a series of attempts to interpret an imprecisely worded will.". From Wordnik.com. [Topping Shakespeare? Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature] Reference
The problem is people tend to confuse 'distraction' with 'wrong', imprecisely turning the latter into an all inclusive word. From Wordnik.com. [Over the top: The fuss about cleavage] Reference
Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea, but imprecisely defined coordinates in the ICJ decision, the unresolved. From Wordnik.com. [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Laqueur knows better, but writing imprecisely that the Nazis "scored very high in honest elections" lends credence to that error. From Wordnik.com. [What's Wrong with 'Fascism'?] Reference
Candidates speak imprecisely from time to time, particularly during presidential campaigns which are superhuman, exhausting efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Guinea, but imprecisely defined coordinates in the ICJ decision, the unresolved Bakasi allocation, and a sovereignty dispute between. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Fascism is a powerful word, but often used imprecisely, so let's define our terms. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Exchange] Reference
But for such a world-conquering career an idea must correspond, however imprecisely, to something. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
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