Vague expressions
Vague language is very common, especially in speaking. We often add words and phrases such as about, kind of, sort of, and that kind of thing to make what we say less factual and direct: …

vague | American Dictionary

vague
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/veɪɡ/
not clearly stated, described, or explained, or not clearly seen or felt:
She had a vague feeling that something had gone terribly wrong.
I have only a vague memory of the house where I lived as a child.
A person who is vague is not able or does not wish to state, describe, or explain something clearly:
Officials were vague about the ship’s location.

vaguely

adverbus/ˈveɪɡ·li/
She stood in silence for several minutes, only vaguely aware of the people around her.

Examples of vague

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Their formulation is vague and the arbitrary three-dimensional plots intended as abstract representations of the global array are not particularly informative.
But even then, it did so only in terms that were vague and imprecise.
Traditionally, there are three dimensions, but this rests on rather vague introspective intuitions.
Many readers may find this too vague and nondirective a conclusion, but it may also be the most honest and potentially motivational conclusion available.
Their statements were often suitably vague about just what proportion of the timber would be devoted to meeting the demands of the state.
Criteria of individuation may be vague, but they are not totally elastic.
That "excellence" is left deliberately vague, so as to allude to intellectual and moral aspirations in addition to artistic ones.
The result of the meeting was a vague agreement that the states would maintain a broad front against plans to sweep aside their rights.
Furthermore, the line separating what was useful from what was useless was extremely vague.
The long awaited anti-nuclear reform came to an end without any achievement except for some vague promises from the government.
The proposed theory is ad hoc and confirmatory in its findings; vague and generic in its claims; and unjustified and unnecessary in its (putative) novelty.
This market still is not aligned with any series, and even the time horizon is kept somewhat vague.
They used vague words such as we want "somewhat less ease," or "gradually move toward tightness," and so on.
Yet, so long as definitions remain vague and the compromise agenda focused on conservation can be invoked, support for the latter is not ruled out.
In terms of, with terms generalized to create a vague all-purpose connective, is currently popular, and frequently criticized.
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