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VAGUELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a vague way
Example:
he explained it somewhat mistily
Synonyms:
mistily; vaguely
Classified under:
Pertainym:
vague (not clearly expressed or understood)
Context examples:
The sight of it, with its bloodstained and ghost-blasted reputation, would in itself have been enough to send a thrill through my nerves; but when the words of my uncle made me suddenly realize that this strange summons was indeed for the two men who were concerned in that old-world tragedy, and that it was the playmate of my youth who had sent it, I caught my breath as I seemed vaguely to catch a glimpse of some portentous thing forming itself in front of us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I think I have heard the business mentioned, sir,” I said, remembering what I vaguely knew of his and his sister's resources.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A thick, black cloud swirled before my eyes, and my mind told me that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I heard vaguely that his abilities and the influences which he commanded had won him a good position at the Foreign Office, and then he passed completely out of my mind until the following letter recalled his existence: My dear Watson,—I have no doubt that you can remember “Tadpole” Phelps, who was in the fifth form when you were in the third.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I even entertained some idea of putting myself on a vegetable diet, vaguely conceiving that, in becoming a graminivorous animal, I should sacrifice to Dora.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Our dinner was tête-à-tête, and though my host did his best to be entertaining, his thoughts seemed to continually wander, and he talked so vaguely and wildly that I could hardly understand him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are some dreams that can only be imperfectly and vaguely described; and when I oblige myself to look back on this time of my life, I seem to be recalling such a dream.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All the way here, I had supposed that she was going to some house; indeed, I had vaguely entertained the hope that the house might be in some way associated with the lost girl.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But I loved her: and now it even became some consolation to me, vaguely to conceive a distant day when I might blamelessly avow it; when all this should be over; when I could say Agnes, so it was when I came home; and now I am old, and I never have loved since!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
