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vaguely

/veyg-lee/US // ˈveɪg li //

隐约可见,隐隐约约,依稀,隐约地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a way that is unclear, imprecise, or uncertain:They've been talking vaguely about maybe buying a house there one of these days. The sound was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't identify it.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • If the show’s other allovers are vaguely floral, “Diagonal” is tectonic.

  • The public doesn’t understand which activities are safe, and city and state officials vaguely warn that worse is yet to come.

  • It’s one of several manzanitas that once grew on San Francisco’s serpentine barrens, dry outcroppings laden with heavy metals from greenish, vaguely snakeskin-textured rocks.

  • While Thacher attacked FDR’s record, the 800 people at the rally heard Johnson vaguely promise policies that would help Maryland farmers find a market for their products.

  • Style Transfer works like the Prisma app that was popular a few years ago, only it can take the style of a piece of art and vaguely translate it to your picture.

  • ThinkProgress calls the premise “uncomfortable and vaguely sad.”

  • It actually kept the government open all year and manage to pass something vaguely resembling a budget.

  • He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.

  • For most of his career, Savalas (1922-1994) could pass for a vaguely exciting yet essentially non-threatening “exotic ethnic.”

  • “Missions” essentially consist of annihilating all means of transportation in small, vaguely Middle Eastern/African cities.

  • He glanced aside, and saw an exceedingly pretty, dark face, which looked vaguely familiar.

  • The fact that her fortune was vaguely threatened did not cause her anxiety: she scarcely realized it.

  • The thought of dying had not yet even vaguely occurred to him, though, for that matter, he had no fear of death.

  • There was a faint, pleasant odor lingering in the room—a vaguely familiar odor.

  • Tewnes, Tunis; vaguely put for some distant and wealthy town; see ll.