vague term

The others were talking about the problem in vague terms.

I don't want to get into it beyond those vague terms.

This had been discussed in vague terms over the past few years.

What does that mean, because it's such a vague term?

It now has artists, photographers and others who have heard in vague terms about the building's past.

In her presence, the two women were using the vague term "visitors."

A vague term like "social activist" might not be far from the mark, either.

New media is a vague term to mean a whole slew of things.

"It's too soon to give an answer that is anything other than in the vaguest terms," he said.

What was madness but a vague term for the unknown?

Contextual information is especially significant for vague terms such as tall.

The 1991 pact expressed the market share target in very vague terms.

Terrorism may itself be a vague term, as critics have argued.

The game is attributed to "India", then a very vague term.

Sleep was a luxury he remembered in only the vaguest terms.

A genre is always a vague term with no fixed boundaries.

But the fact remains that a "trip" is a vague term when compared with miles traveled.

School officials, she said, refused to tell her how much the new revenue was or where it had come from, except in the vaguest terms.

Yet he speaks in vague terms and sometimes seems to have a loose grasp on complex national issues.

"Only at great risk and in rather vague terms.

Helen's books deal only in the vaguest terms with the breakup.

"Talk about it in vague terms, and look for nonverbal signals," he said.

Producing, as he points out, is a vague term.

I dare say he named you as the English magician - or some such vague term.

Rights-based approach is a vague term that doesn't clearly represent a set of ideas.