Adjective : a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit. From Dictionary.com.
You shifted goalposts again, if rather nebulously. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Nelson makes a bizarre argument - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Victory is defined too nebulously to substantively measure. From Wordnik.com. [Sahil Kapur: A Disastrous Week For The Afghanistan War] Reference
I totally agree that the paper is written very nebulously and loosely. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Water and Air] Reference
I do have to thank you for putting what I was nebulously thinking in such concise words. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Magic Notebook] Reference
Perfection is elusive, however nebulously we understand it and however much we yearn for it. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
For their own nebulously noble reasons, the school's administrators agreed to give it a try. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Danza teaches English in real Philadelphia high school in A&E TV show] Reference
Or would it produce an effect that was only nebulously hinted at by the term contra-attunement?. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Faces]
Wikkell nodded, and the idea that had been nebulously floating about in his head took on more solidity. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
Instead of planning a victory party for Tuesday night, the campaign has scheduled a nebulously named "election night celebration.". From Wordnik.com. [A Not-So-Sure Thing] Reference
SciFi Scanner points us to a shiny Serenity poster set featuring everyone's favorite nebulously evil corporation villain, Blue Sun. From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 7/31/07] Reference
Some candidates — Senator Chris Dodd, and, more nebulously, Mrs. Clinton — indicated that they would give national security primacy. From Wordnik.com. [A False Choice Between Human Rights and Security] Reference
In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined "special interests" happy. From Wordnik.com. [Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Prop 23: Green Jobs vs. Dirty Energy] Reference
The final category is nebulously marked “Recent Results,” the vagueness of which points to both the strengths and weaknesses of the product. From Wordnik.com. [Google, Inching Closer to Real-Time Search] Reference
For reasons nebulously noble, the TV actor Tony Danza became a 10th-grade English teacher in an urban Philadelphia high school in the 2009-10 academic year. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Danza teaches English in real Philadelphia high school in A&E TV show] Reference
I think of vacil "votive", for example, which also acts just as nebulously by being found as a noun on its own or postposed to other nouns like an adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan "esi"... What is it?] Reference
The City of Toronto would like the development of the Donlands to focus on quality employment, nebulously located in the film and ‘new media’ industries. From Wordnik.com. [Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Rhetoric and reality in the Donlands] Reference
These are just some of the nebulously named martinis currently being marketed to women at bars and restaurants in hopes of increasing our alcoholic consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Lori Sokol: Balancing on Strawberry Stilettos] Reference
The first three lead the user to a short list of nebulously named categories that lead to exhaustive alphabetical lists of everything included in that category. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
He could say in bright words what they nebulously thought. From Wordnik.com. [Old Kaskaskia] Reference
In the world of her daydreams many suitors floated nebulously. From Wordnik.com. [The Highgrader] Reference
Then the spot of candlelight shone nebulously as before; then it moved away. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school] Reference
The only difference is who gave this nebulously nefarious guy with the Arabic name more money, you or Ayers?. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
Neither of these saving graces have survived Peter Jackson's nebulously frenetic and euphemistically kid-friendly adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide] Reference
On turning a corner they beheld the Hotel Orilla del Mar three streets away, nebulously aglow with its array of kerosene lamps. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
They frequently, if nebulously, talk about using the Commonwealth as a way of cultivating links with the likes of South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
Vaguely, nebulously, the secret of this dread thing Fire-Tongue, which had uplifted its head in England, appeared before his mind's eye. From Wordnik.com. [Fire-Tongue] Reference
'At present,' admitted Psmith, 'there is some idea of that description floating -- nebulously, as it were -- in Comrade Bickersdyke's mind. From Wordnik.com. [Psmith in the City] Reference
While Bonaparte was conciliating the many, Sieyès was striving to body forth the constitution which for many years had been nebulously floating in his brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference
It hovers nebulously beyond the outstretched finger-ends of recollection, and, like the fish that gets off the hook, becomes more and more important as the years fade. From Wordnik.com. [In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories] Reference
Don't care about handsome or bald? in fact, love bald, if also nebulously hot? "said another. From Wordnik.com. [Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body] Reference
But she rose and said, nebulously, as she stood before him, ruffling his hair: "Well, I would like to get cool. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
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