imprecise

How To Use imprecise In A Sentence

• When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market. The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. Ulysses
• But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it. GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
• It will simply conceal whatever gaps in communication there are under another layer of imprecise language.
• Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.
• The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
• Recording beach litter is an imprecise science, at best a fuzzy snapshot of a particular day. Times, Sunday Times
• However, this technique is imprecise and can be messy and difficult to accomplish.
• But food intolerance is a rather imprecise term. The Sun
• That's probably a terribly untechnical and imprecise way of asking, Can she take a term that she didn't invent and that everyone has been using freely for months and actually get legal protection for it? Trademarking "Octomom."