Describes vague measures that are not clear. If you vaguely remember meeting someone once, you barely remember them, what you talked about, or where you met. Tewnes, Tunis; vaguely fixed for a distant and prosperous city; See LL. There was a faint pleasant smell in the room – a vaguely familiar smell. He glanced to the side and saw a very pretty dark face that seemed vaguely familiar to him. It`s one of many manzanitas that once grew on San Francisco`s serpentine domains, dry outcrops laden with heavy metals from greenish rocks and vaguely textured into snakeskin. As Thacher attacked FDR`s death toll, the 800 people at the rally heard Johnson vaguely promising policies that would help Maryland farmers find a market for their produce. The thought of dying hadn`t even crossed his mind, although he wasn`t afraid of death, by the way. He once told me that he only vaguely understood „the mechanical aspects of sex“ until he was in his twenties. „What was it like?“ he asked vaguely, absorbed in his own thoughts. If the other lovers of the show are vaguely flowery, „Diagonal“ is tectonic.
For most of his career, Savalas (1922-1994) may have passed for a vaguely exciting but essentially non-threatening „exotic ethnicity“. ThinkProgress calls the premise „uncomfortable and vaguely sad.“ The adverb probably comes from the Latin word vagus, meaning „wandering“ or „dangerous“. Its origin is unclear, which corresponds to a word that means „foggy“. If you don`t want to go to your friend`s tuba concert, you can vaguely say, „I think I might have something else to do tonight. But if I don`t, I`ll try to do it. The fact that her fortune is vaguely threatened does not frighten her: she hardly notices it. The public doesn`t understand what activities are safe, and city and state officials are vaguely warning that the worst is yet to come. The „missions“ essentially consist of destroying all means of transport in small towns vaguely Middle Eastern/African. In fact, he kept the government open throughout the year and managed to pass something that vaguely resembled a budget.
Style Transfer works like the Prisma app that was popular a few years ago, but it can take the style of a work of art and loosely translate it to your image. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. borrowed from French, back in Middle French, back in Old French, „wandering, vagabond“, borrowed from Latin vagus „to move freely, to wander“, perhaps related to Old High German wankÅn „to, tumble“, winkan „to swing, tumble, wink“, Old English wincian „close your eyes“ – more to wink Point 1 Join our community to access Oxford University Press` latest language learning tips and assessment! Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.