How To Use Ambiguous In A Sentence

That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
In this kind of world, the weak and feeble minded are cast to the side to die an unambiguous death, while the strong and wise go on to live a fruitful, long life.
Lacking auditory and visual cues, the e-mail message or newsgroup post can be productively ambiguous in tone.
He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine. Southern Cross
Such an intention must be clearly manifested by unmistakable and unambiguous language.

If the nominee is an unknown quantity as far as views on issues, then the nominee will likely make ambiguous statements about any issues the Republicans ask. Think Progress » Will: What conservatives truly want are activist judges.
Ambiguous wording leaves some wiggle room for further negotiation.
I think someone previously used the word ambiguous, that is absolutely spot on what he wanted. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
And as long as we use the term ambiguously and fail to discriminate between conscience proper and the term as used in the looser, larger sense, we will have nothing but confusion. To Infidelity and Back
But the auguries for the future are more ambiguous.
Second, cheap oil is unambiguously good for European consumers. Times, Sunday Times
The title of this chapter is ambiguous.
Since individual univalents or bivalents in some nuclei may lie too close to each other to be resolved unambiguously, this method underestimates the frequency of achiasmate chromosomes.
Our body image in fact is central, if ambiguously so, to our mental and physical well-being.
Just get her something totally nonambiguous, like a car, instead. Times, Sunday Times
Run before it gets you with its diaper bag smell, pustules of mold, and ambiguous bloomy rind! Adventures With the Stinky Cheese Man: Andrew From Andrew's Cheese Shop
It is therefore possible to unambiguously assign a vehicle to each ticket.
He adds, a few lines further on, that this term freedom is an indefinite, and incalculably ambiguous term… liable to an infinity of misunderstandings, confusions and errors.
It is not an ambiguous message, it is much worse than that: pure poetry. Times, Sunday Times
Additionally, the secretary of state may promulgate regulations interpreting ambiguous provisions of the act.
Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues.
Once more, the evidence is ambiguous and interpretations have become polarized.
Sport is vivid, compelling, ambiguous and open to all kinds of subjective interpretations. Times, Sunday Times
That ratification depends on Parliament only dissenting in legally ambiguous ways?
An ambiguous face -- strong and vulnerable, naïve and shrewd. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The plot is sufficiently ravelled for the entry to Valhalla to have only ambiguous significance.
The calm voice waited on the tapes, and my grief was ambiguous.
In a surprising role, Hoffman hits the screen with tongue blazing as a neurotic, sexually ambiguous and sex-starved underground mobster named Mr. King.
the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates
In the current climate, any smooth and unambiguous unity of theory is likely to arouse suspicion.
The minister said she would give a clear and unambiguous statement on the future of the coal industry at the earliest possible opportunity.
The current language of the Bill is ambiguous and unclear in the attempt to reconcile different and sometimes contradictory objectives. Times, Sunday Times
Basic class locations are positions in the social organization of production that are relatively unambiguous concerning the nature of property ownership and domination and control. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Not a single piece of ambiguous language obscured the food on offer.
Since the events of September 11, and with the ambiguous source of anthrax attacks, there have been concerns of suspect packages.
Both novels occupy somewhat ambiguous positions in the oeuvres of their authors.
The inference was unambiguous: the parliament was an intrusive, petty-minded bunch of jobsworths, bereft of any credibility.
The analysis was presented in clear, accurate and unambiguous English.
Ripley is the ambiguous, charming villain in Patricia Highsmith's iconic series of novels who has fascinated readers since he first appeared in 1955.
Is the notion of a distinct foreign policy arena as obsolete as it is ambiguous?
In each case it was not possible unambiguously to align portions of the extreme amino and carboxyl termini of the sequences.
The blocky, black, businesslike appearance of the stock pistol has been replaced by a two-tone visage that testifies unambiguously to extensive alteration.
The International Court of Justice, which is the court that determines what the law is in such cases, made a ruling which is clear and unambiguous. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The current language of the Bill is ambiguous and unclear in the attempt to reconcile different and sometimes contradictory objectives. Times, Sunday Times
Leaving the boundary between human life and nature ambiguous is a Japanese virtue. Shell Villa by ARTechnic Architects
It may be possible to go further and interpret Lord Browne-Wilkinson's somewhat ambiguous dicta as removing the requirement for a fiduciary relationship altogether.
However, the evidence is thin and, to some extent, ambiguous.
I'm more open to ambiguous protagonists and anti-heroes, so this aspect didn't bother me.
When it was restaged at the beginning of this year in the new house, it seemed as intense and potently ambiguous as ever.
We can unambiguously conclude that there is a situation in which voluntarily oriented attention subserves feature integration when tested with multiple search items.
I wanted a book that showed us how ambiguous we are, or how ambivalent we are.
The parol evidence rule precludes extrinsic evidence when the document is clear and unambiguous on its face.
In the first place, most of its key concepts are essentially ambiguous.
The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language, even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous.
It's a minimalist sci-fi mystery about a Silver Lake couple who infiltrate a cult led by a charismatic woman Ms. Marling whose ambiguous identity unsettles the pair. Visions of the Horizon for City Moviegoers
Abbot could foresee a succession of equally ambiguous interviews. UNTO THE GRAVE
It's easier to get a message across if you don't commit amphibologies - a verbal fallacy arising from an ambiguous grammatical construction. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
It said the document must to'fully and unambiguously reflect the scope of uncertainty' over who is understood to be in charge after an indecisive outcome. Times, Sunday Times
Their already ambiguous moral roles freed female outsiders to express discontent with the status quo. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
After testing, we later found out the birth defect has a name, cloacal exstrophy, or ambiguous genitalia. Angels of a Lower Flight
Ecclesiastes is another complicated and ambiguous book. RCIA Presentation: The Old Testament
One unambiguous photo of the performance has been circulating, but it is unclear how many people actually saw the acts; Cheng's case hinges on convincing the notoriously ironhanded Chinese judiciary that his performance, open only to a select group of invited artists, was not intended to create a disturbance and was not harmful to society. Performance Artist Sentenced To A Year In A Labor Camp For 'Art Whore' Exhibition
Goethe and Schiller did not call themselves Klas - siker and actually had an ambiguous attitude toward the whole enterprise of establishing a classical litera - ture. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
The modern world takes a strangely ambiguous position on violence.
Beipiaosaurus and Sinomithosaurus bear short fibers similar to those on Sinosauropteryx, but the structures on Caudipteryx and Protarchaeopteryx are unambiguous feathers, with a central rachis and barbs.
As a general rule, for the movies they came up with lighter endings - most of his plays end ambiguously and darkly. Reluctant Readers (copy)
Even at first skim, what becomes abundantly ambiguous is the question of whether crisis is a state of objective being or a mode of engagement.
It was a pretty ambiguous relationship. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever the Halachic ramifications, it is clear that there is something ambiguous about the use of a Bat-Kol.
Socially, the impact has been more ambiguous.
ambiguous inkblots
The works, while clear, are also ambiguous; a number look ramshackle, jerry-built, jumbled - even chaotic.
Through these characters, we get a sense of the ambiguous nature of war and are able to understand why and how families disintegrate during war.
Boyce's clear demand for this unambiguous statement was transmitted to Goldsmith through the Prime Minister.
He insists more than his teacher that we recognize the physical presence of elements that are alien to canvas, yet takes extra care to make that presence ambiguous.
Due to NGO pressures - such as that by the late Edmund Kaiser, founder of Terre des Hommes, who launched the first campaign against these "traditional practices" - WHO organised a seminar in Khartoum in 1979 when the unambiguous term FGM was first coined. Tundra Tabloids.......
Assembly, filling of gaps, and verification of ambiguous organism assignment would probably be performed most efficiently at one central laboratory.
In “Allison”, what in fact was happening – although the writers tried mightily to keep it ambiguous – was fairly obvious: her glitch from the car bomb caused her to crosslink her self-awareness with her memories of the woman she was modeled after, and then channel those memories through her human emulation mode. Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction
These sorts of ambiguities are common, even in edited writing, because the surrounding sentences give context to the ambiguous sentence. Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
[*] As I noted above, Ace’s post was ambiguous as to whether the jackhammer cock’s approach to the duodenum is per orem or per anum. anon E. mouse Says: Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere
Far less ambiguous is the evidence that Australia and cricket are no longer wedded in bliss. Times, Sunday Times
We have shown that phase-sensitive specular neutron reflectometry can be used to determine accurately and unambiguously the SLD depth profiles of biomimetic membranes with a resolution in the subnanometer range.
This ambiguous attitude makes his art cryptic: viewers are left grasping at answers.
Naturally, all of these adornments, together with the elimination of ambiguous, controversial or indelicate elements, imply the contamination of the traditional fairytale material.
In this hypochondriacal or flatuous melancholy, the symptoms are so ambiguous, saith [2633] Crato in a counsel of his for a noblewoman, that the most exquisite physicians cannot determine of the part affected. Anatomy of Melancholy
It's very much like the way there is no ambiguous common-sense basis for the interpretation of the terms incall and outcall as used by massage services.
However, the term baroque was also used by those that vilipended the film, as synonymous of extravagant, pretentious or pompous, thus perpetuating the ambiguous nature of the term.
The justices stated unambiguously that Quebec has no legal right to secede unilaterally and that only a process of constitutional amendment can change Quebec's legal status within confederation.
But he was not an unambiguously good model. The Times Literary Supplement
Tomei meanwhile reminds what a great actress she really is in her portrayal of Laura, a fellow barfly with an ambiguous background who briefly becomes involved with Chinaski.
Oskar Schindler was a more complex and morally ambiguous man than Spielberg's depiction in "Schindler's List. IsThatLegal?
The rules of engagement for police marksmen are deliberately simple and unambiguous.
What makes this hypothetical unusual and unrealistic is the unambiguously objective manifestation of intent in the advertisement.
Once again, the desirability of clear terms of contract, coupled perhaps with an unambiguous job description, is plain.
Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
The SRS is used to generate permanent, unique, unambiguous identifiers for substances in regulated products, such as ingredients in drug products. Demulen Birth Control Pills Still Lactose Free
To me she is ambiguous, transgendered, and desexed. Wendy Carrillo: El Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe: A Reflection
The Constitution is an ambiguous document open to interpretation by all.
Some listeners may wonder about the museum's ambiguous relationship with HSBC. Times, Sunday Times
The critic Greenberg acknowledged the ambiguous position the avant-garde would need to maintain with its patrons.
The second manner of semantic variation concerns the activation by different contexts of different senses associated with ambiguous word forms.
Like semaphores signaling an ambiguous statement, the chairs face away from the figures in the penultimate picture and virtually disappear in the varnished penumbra that concludes the final work of the cycle.
Forgiveness was the punctum I found in Unforgiven and which is already there in the text, if ambiguously.
Often a single English sentence would last a whole paragraph, and the pronoun references would quickly become ambiguous unless you could retranslate it from the Latin or check the source material from which the story was taken.
Luke's innocence and virtuousness are emphasized in comparison to Hans' rugged masculine physical appearance, his morally ambiguous occupation and mercenary ideologies.
However, in Vietnamese "chon" appears to be ambiguous - "weasel" or "civet" - and some descriptions mention caphe cut chon ( "fox-dung coffee", to confuse the biology) as being processed by the civet. The secret of Kopi Luwak
It is not an ambiguous message, it is much worse than that: pure poetry. Times, Sunday Times
This early conception of the lycanthrope as a victim of heredity left the monster in a morally ambiguous position.
This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations.
At this confirmation of a sudden terror, imbibed from the ambiguous words of Halbert, and which his fond heart would not allow him to acknowledge to himself, Wallace covered his face with his hands and fell with a deep groan against the side of the cavern. The Scottish Chiefs
Likewise, readers are also apprised of how ambiguous a clue to morality deception may be.
The eponymous stigmatic of Hansen's book may ultimately be opaque, too, but she is rendered in three dimensions, with sexual, psychic, and spiritual longings ambiguous but palpable.
Time and ambiguous drafting are the enemies of confidence. Times, Sunday Times
Far less ambiguous is the evidence that Australia and cricket are no longer wedded in bliss. Times, Sunday Times
In a state where coal is seen as the fount of prosperity, Mr. Raese has seized on what he calls ambiguous statements by Mr. Manchin on proposals for a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases. NYT > Home Page
Critics slammed it as confusing, ambiguous and complex. Times, Sunday Times
La Champagneria -- Upon entering the cozy confines of La Champagneria, you should immediately notice -- apart from the gorgeous jamon iberico hanging from the ceiling -- the ambiguous red wine spritzer that everyone appears to be drinking. Michael Yarbrough: A Student's Guide to Backpacking: Barcelona
Government policies have been somewhat ambiguous.
At the very end of the piece, in a very contemporary strategy, the perfect fourth yields to a tritone, C-#, thereby obscuring an unambiguous closure in an enriched tonality of D major.
The errors of Liberius and Honorius were not that they taught false doctrine, but that Liberius, under great duress, signed an ambiguous formula while indicating that the formula is to be understood in an orthodox sense, and that Honorius, while not a Monothelete himself, did not condemn Monotheletism when he should have. Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
Had it been seen abstracted from that context by the US public, there would have been a more ambiguous reaction.
The legal position on mercy killing is unambiguous. Times, Sunday Times
The Columbia Journalism Review even published two anthologies of ambiguous headlinese in the 1980s, with the classic titles "Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim" and NYT > Home Page
Even if the hematite's origin remains ambiguous, trace amounts of other minerals could serve as additional markers of past water.
Former President Fidel Ramos said Arroyo’s "ambiguousness" towards her population policy "has put mothers’ lives and health, together with their babies, at risk for the sake of political expediency and religious traditionalism. Archive 2008-07-01
Which they would each prefer is left hauntingly ambiguous. Graham Moore: Sherlock Holmes Gets the US Weekly Treatment, and I Couldn't Be Happier
Nars Orgasm blush is certainly an atypical name, although I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it falls under ‘’unexpected descriptive’’ or simply ‘’ambiguous.’’ Balloon Juice » 2005 » July
However, the truth is the mind is very subtle and it has the ability to rationalize which can turn the obvious into the ambiguous, and vice versa.
Of course he used them ambiguously, contradictorily and dialectically, but use them he did.
The 'army', which was based in Caernarvonshire, was a collection of ill-matched enough individuals: some lovers of the language more than anything, others supporters of 'self-government' in that ambiguous manner typical of the period, and others who were eager to emulate the attitudes and even the methods of Sinn Fein in Wales. Archive 2008-05-01
It has sown confusion and anxiety among researchers by giving birth to the ambiguous concept of sensitive but unclassified research.
Only unambiguously aligned positions were considered in phylogenetic analyses.
These examples have a military marching rhythm to them, but it is possible, with alliteration, assonance and heavier syllables in those unstressed positions, to give the verses a more ambiguous feel, so that they seem to go back and forth more readily between a straight iambic (or trochaic) and a dipodic sound — such as the Hardy poem Steve discusses in his post. Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
But in the stillness of golf and snooker, foul play is clear and unambiguous. Times, Sunday Times
And with this developing in ignominious as well as PageRank you can save in perspective to apprehend your background in culminate unambiguous exhilarated in those Search Locomotive Results. Your Right Hand Thief
The supernatural beings of the Sinhalese could be manipulated by humans soas to influence events, but their ethical position was ambiguous.
Therefore, in most cases determining whether VGlut1 - or VGlut2-positive neurites belong to intense reelin IR somata was very ambiguous. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
3. They use all this information to help create a relationship that fits both their needs and styles and that is characterized by unambiguous mutual expectations. Power and Influence
The judgment was ambiguous over the adjoining 1.8 square mile plot, opening the way for both sides to claim it.
In large part this was a product of the ideology of the force, which was one of unambiguous social conservatism. A Social History of Modern Spain
Totally abstract, and indeterminate, purged of all anthropomorphic and mythological qualities, God becomes the ominously ambiguous and threatening deity who evokes nothing but dread and terror.
It is never okay to lie, sometimes okay to lie adder addressable addressing adequate adjacent adjunct adjustable administer admission admit advance advansing advantage aegis affect affinity affirm affix afford after again agency aggravate aggregate agitate ahead aid alarm alerating alias alien alignment alined all allied allocation allow alloy along alphabetic alphameric already altenate alteration although altitude altogether ambient ambiguous ambitious Rudy: Iraq Is "In The Hands Of Other People"
It is morally ambiguous and purposefully divorced from the thrill - seeking flamboyance of the director's glory - glory days.
Teneriffe primitive strata, or even those trappean and ambiguous porphyries, which constitute the bases of Etna, and of several volcanoes of the Andes, we must not conclude from this isolated fact, that the whole archipelago of the Canaries is the production of submarine fires. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
Some of the songs are shot through with what seems like a deliberately ambiguous approach.
The authority stressed that the information contained on food labels should be clear, unambiguous and must not make misleading or false claims.
His remarks were ambiguous, and it will be the tone that matters.
Mr. Sughrue said that an ambiguous clause in the loan docum ents gave the guarantors an opportunity to claim that, by delivering a deed to the lender, they were off the hook. Plans for 14th Street Hotel Go Nowhere
Or a person could appeal to ambiguous language. Christianity Today
Clear, unambiguous language was required for public expenditure or to levy a tax. Times, Sunday Times
But even this latter assertion is somewhat uncertain and ambiguous for several reasons.
On every side the foliage blurred into ambiguous vistas, where fireflies loitered; and the long shadows of the nearer trees, straining across the grass, were wried patterns scissored out of blue velvet. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
While studies during gestation and at birth provided ambiguous results, almost all the studies done around conception gave strong support to the Trivers-Willard hypothesis.
The motivating fictional element is a subversive or ambiguous move.
The conduct or act has intrinsically no definite significance, or only an ambiguous one, and its whole legal purport or tenor is to be more precisely ascertained by considering the words accompanying it.
Is it any wonder that his ambiguous hybrid art dissolves boundaries in such an equivocal manner?
The unambiguous identity of a child's father is crucial for the child's own social identity.
Unfortunately the instructions were ambiguous and we didn't know which part of the program to run.
Rowan, something polysemantic is something ambiguous, or having many meanings. Regretsy – Bird on a Wire
To clinch the argument, we needed a fossil that unambiguously showed a nonavian dinosaur with a feathery body covering.
While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured.
Studies show that a thermogram identifies precancerous or cancerous cells earlier, and produces unambiguous results, which cuts down on additional testing--and it doesn't hurt the body. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The reported information was of a factual nature, and so could be unambiguously coded.
Thus even the notion of genuine choices among alternative candidates can be ambiguous.
Donald's offer on behalf of the company to buy a round of drinks had been ambiguous and caused uncertainty among us.
In the logical formal mode, proof is provided in linearly connected sentences composed of words that are carefully selected to convey unambiguous meaning.
Stipulate at the outset — as most folks seem to — that barring extraordinary circumstances (unambiguous libel, incitement to harrassment) Americans have a clear constitutional right to anonymous speech and that, again barring exceptional circumstances, other Americans have an equal First Amendment right to name them if they happen to be privy to that information. Pseudonymity & Accountability Redux
Fans of the first film will agree that the sheer ambiguousness and enigmatic status of the film's villain was the main ingredient that catapulted the original into cult status.
When you begin taking the term flood, if you try to (unintelligible) it so many ways as the insurance companies have, it's going to be ambiguous. Defining "Flood," with Billions at Stake
For me there's an ambiguous element, ie it's possible that the AMs mean they want to see Wales legislate independently within devolved areas. Fifth Column?
The critic Greenberg acknowledged the ambiguous position the avant-garde would need to maintain with its patrons.
The background is extensively researched; the tragic story of betrayed romance is presented as morally ambiguous. Times, Sunday Times
And what they celebrated, unambiguously, was their own content.
This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond.
As I have argued before on these pages, that rage is morally ambiguous.
Mikhail is a curiously ambiguous character in that we are not aware of his allegiance. The Tail Section » LOST - Who Can Ya Trust?
Mr Cook said the Yule River meeting delivered an unambiguous message to the Yamatji members who attended.
Sher argued that the term flood was ambiguous, insofar as it might be limited to strictly "natural" events, as opposed to all instances of damage by water. A Louisiana decision on flood damage
The Chinese Government further weakened an already weak position by the ambiguous attitude which it took to its dependencies and tributaries.
Second, the results of standard cladistic biogeographic analyses, which may combine groups of different ages, cannot be unambiguously attributed to any particular cause.
˜intellectual integrity™ is ambiguous between integrity of the intellect and the integrity of the intellectual. Integrity
Then it strikes me that perhaps, like an ambiguous picture, both can exist simultaneously and have their own truth.
Nor were all these changes unambiguously for the better.
What is perhaps most revealing about Hooke's text is its composite character, as it enacts what Browne might have called the ‘amphibologies,’ the ambiguous frames of mind of which micrography is the theater.
The ambiguous Iris Murdoch fights back against Kar's female stereotyping, and succeeds in looking intense, lonely, beautiful and desperate, even though she is leaning on a cosy candlewick bedspread staring at a heap of manuscripts. Portraits of the artists
He talked ambiguously, and was so apprehensive of what I might say that I had not the heart to catechise him. Chapter 12: The Bishop
US soldiers killed in combat is a category of data kept and made available by the Department of Defense, so this definition should be unambiguous. Robert Naiman: For a DREAMy, Wartime, National-Service Draft
Of course, this idea is implicit in much liberal as well as neoconservative thinking, but such an unambiguous statement is offensive to all sides.
The standfirst is unfortunately ambiguous.
This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond.
Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
Rosenbaum makes this more or less plain when he suggests that Encrypted within [Nabokov's] words, encoded indecipherably, ambiguously, is the equivalent of the secret of lightning. The Biographical Fallacy
This label is not as unambiguous as might appear at first glance.
But in the stillness of golf and snooker, foul play is clear and unambiguous. Times, Sunday Times
First, their case focused attention upon the ambiguous ethical relationship between campaign contributions and political favours by elected officials.
Unfortunately, our modern consciousness wants to hypostatize nature - to grasp clearly and unambiguously what this ‘thing’ is so that we can preserve it.
The spokeswoman was responding to a question about the ambiguous descriptions of the offenders, which have ranged from mixed race to white or Afro-Caribbean.
Its characters are presented ambiguously and their conflicts are not structured in terms of clear-cut oppositions between good and evil.
Zaire's national conference on democracy ended ambiguously.

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