How To Use Ill-defined In A Sentence

  • Until now, the multiverse was a hazy, ill-defined concept-little more than a philosophical trick.
  • Official favour is still needed in a country with a shaky legal system, ill-defined property rights and political protection that can be abruptly removed.
  • He stood on the section of the deck behind the gangway, in that ill-defined area that was called the quarterdeck, along with the others going on shore leave, sunlight and shadows from the masts and rigging falling across them. Wellspring of Chaos
  • They show how each uses ill-defined global concepts (such as "mean temperature"), confuse infrared radiation with heat (they're different), incorrectly describe the physics inside a glass greenhouse, and use other terms unsupported by the laws of physics. Latest Articles
  • This ill-defined and much-abused concept is at base a simple one.
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  • He'd been abrupt, distinctly arrogant ---quite impossible in some ill-defined way. DEVIL'S BRIDE
  • No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy.
  • We also believe absolutely that there is no place in this day and age for an ill-defined concept of spirituality.
  • But he said the edge of the carriageway was ‘ill-defined’, with pine needles and other debris deposited there.
  • This isn't a struggle against some distant, ill-defined enemy.
  • On physical examination, the patient was a healthy-appearing boy with an ill-defined swelling at the manubrial portion of his sternum.
  • It is therefore of some concern that the management failures identified by the Scottish expert group appear to be ill-defined and ambiguous.
  • Scotland remains vague and ill-defined in the US consciousness.
  • In our data, the fluctuations in dysrythmias and ill-defined descriptions and complications of heart disease are uninterpretable, and AIHD is not traceable after 1980 without inclusion of the latter.
  • If we think about it, wind chill is an ill-defined concept.
  • The nuclei of these mononuclear cells are round to oval with ill-defined cytoplasmic margins.
  • Government documents and official statements concerning integration are replete with romantic and ill-defined language.
  • The third major problem with the challenge as it stands depends on people making a voluntary sacrifice towards a nebulous and ill-defined common cause.
  • Most disturbing, the taxpayer will be funding an enormous, ill-defined programme, without any stipulation as yet that the banks who orchestrated the mess will pay a penalty.
  • Some jobs in the company are pretty ill-defined.
  • Her face was gaunt, almost ugly, the eyes naturally shadowed, the mouth, without lipstick, pale and ill-defined. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • Comity, however, is an ill-defined concept, and for that reason can be arbitrary in its application.
  • It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined.
  • The study is important because it provide the specific guideline and evidence for instructional designer to design e-learning materials in the ill-defined problem-solving knowledge domain.
  • In San Francisco such contenders as Wired magazine, the rattle-bearer of new media, cluster in an ill-defined sprawl.
  • The precise aims of the committee remain ill-defined.
  • Instead it recognises ‘signs and symptoms of ill-defined conditions’ for which veterans can claim disability pensions.
  • I'd rather discuss specific authors and their ideas, rather than some vague, ill-defined movement.
  • The exhibition contains, of course, excellent examples by each of the three masthead figures, but they represent only one strand of a much more ambitious but ill-defined text, or rather series of subtexts.
  • Two and a half months later, a computed tomographic scan showed multifocal nodules with ill-defined margins in both lungs.
  • Two and a half months later, a computed tomographic scan showed multifocal nodules with ill-defined margins in both lungs.
  • We may be in a recession; then again, we may be just stuck in an ill-defined "economic slowdown" — not a great place to be, but not as scary as the R word.
  • In the Collins Review it's presented as a vague and ill-defined feel-good motherhood concept.
  • Offutt provides a weak and ill-defined concept of region as the basis for her placement of Saltillo.
  • If language is a code, it is a complexly ill-defined code, adaptable to the innovative skill of its users.
  • The radiologist reported two anomalies to the doctor: an “ill-defined density” in the subareola region and an enlarged lymph node or nodes, measuring four-by-two centimeters, in the right axilla armpit. Law In The Health and Human Services
  • Orth epidermoid cyst; or, according to Warren, a form of cyst made up of skin containing small and ill-defined papillae, but rich in hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Dermoid cysts of the ovary may consist only of a wall of connective tissue lined with epidermis and containing distinctly epidermic scales which, however, may be rolled up in firm masses of a more or less soapy consistency; this variety is called by Orth epidermoid cyst; or, according to Warren, a form of cyst made up of skin containing small and ill-defined papillæ, but rich in hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • This would have killed two birds with one stone, combining a focusless programme looking for a theme with an ill-defined product looking for an identity.
  • The precise aims of the committee remain ill-defined.
  • The calcar avis and bulb of the posterior cornu are extremely variable in their degree of development; in some cases they are ill-defined, in others prominent. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
  • he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts
  • If language is a code, it is a complexly ill-defined code, adaptable to the innovative skill of its users.
  • May 24th, 2006 at 11: 52 pm skippy says: when it comes to giving up civil rights in the name of national security to support an ill-defined war that has no focus or end in sight, skippy is jsut sick and tired of it all. Think Progress » Bush Administration Uses ‘State Secrets Privilege’ To Escape Accountability
  • The precise aims of the committee remain ill-defined.
  • The study is important because it provide the specific guideline and evidence for instructional designer to design e-learning materials in the ill-defined problem-solving knowledge domain.
  • The party also supports an ill-defined criminalisation of verbal attacks on national "holies". Slackbastard
  • By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench.
  • The press has questioned the government's right to cite ill-defined "public interest" as an excuse for knocking down homes.
  • They were the sort of conflicts that frequently flare up along any ill-defined border which is straddled by farming communities.
  • Radiographic examination revealed an ill-defined radiolucent lesion at the joint area of the previous bone graft and the right mandibular angle.
  • They pass the time in a hazy half-light, drifting from one ill-defined moment to the next in works deeply suspicious of form and language.
  • Is schizophrenia a group of ill-defined syndromes, or is it a true nosological entity? The Mad Among Us
  • It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined.
  • Although English kings traditionally claimed an overall supremacy here, they had done little to transform that ill-defined overlordship into lasting military and administrative control.
  • It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined.
  • He faults the 'logical' objection to the construction as a hasty and ill-defined generalisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • They rail against ill-defined "oligarchies," entrenched political parties, local elites, the church or media establishment. CounterPunch
  • By degrees these limits were enlarged; and the term Assyria came to be used, in a loose and vague way, of a vast and ill-defined tract extending on all sides from this central region. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
  • David is the fatherless image of adolescent youth, rake-thin, spotty and with an ill-defined sense-of-being, provided by his uncle's friends.
  • It's a war unlike any war that's gone before, with ill-defined enemies and with no clear campaign methodology on which to call.
  • For example, if one confronts a novel problem that is ill-defined, then general problem-solving heuristics may be very useful.
  • There are different forms of PNETs and, while scientists have made progress in characterizing the genetic abnormalities associated with some PNET subtypes, the highly aggressive cerebral tumors known as CNS-PNETs have been difficult to characterize as they represent a relatively uncommon group of tumors with ill-defined diagnostic features. Medindia Health News
  • Up to this contact with Price, and indeed for some time after, I had regarded group selection as so ill-defined, so woolly in the uses made by its proponents, and so generally powerless against selection at the individual and genic levels, that the idea might as well be omitted from the toolkit of a working evolutionist. David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks
  • The sea had smoothed out to slick rollers, no whitecaps breaching the swells, a hazy and ill-defined sun occasionally breaking through. CORMORANT
  • They constitute an assortment of ill-defined symptoms that affect people in different ways and to different extents.
  • The preamble is all about metaphysical, ill-defined concepts, as Dr Mapp pointed out.
  • The weather being exactly the same every day out here, means that days become ill-defined and merge into a stream of time, rather than form days, weeks, and months.
  • And there is an air of ill-defined frustration about him.
  • Most disturbing, the taxpayer will be funding an enormous, ill-defined programme, without any stipulation as yet that the banks who orchestrated the mess will pay a penalty.
  • It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined.
  • Nick looked up in surprise, and some ill-defined expression briefly flashed in his face before it was quickly replaced with an angry glare. LOST SUMMER

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