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vague /'vāg/ adj: characterized by such a lack of precision that a person of ordinary intelligence would have to guess if particular conduct is being proscribed: characterized by a failure to describe forbidden conduct in terms sufficient to provide fair warningvague·ly advvague·ness n
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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ambiguous, ambiguus, amorphous, blurred, blurry, broad, cloudy, confused, cryptic, dim, doubtful, dubious, dubius, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, faint, general, ill-defined, impalpable, imprecise, incertus, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexplicit, intangible, misunderstood, mysterious, nebulous, obscure, perplexing, poorly defined, problematical, questionable, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, unspecified, unsure
associated concepts: void for vagueness
foreign phrases:
- Res est misera ubi jus est vagum et incertum. — It is a sorry state of affairs when law is vague and mutable.II index allusive, ambiguous, broad, debatable, disputable, dubious, equivocal, evasive, impalpable, imponderable, inapprehensible, inarticulate, incomprehensible, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inexpressive, inscrutable, insubstantial, intangible, nebulous, noncommittal, oblique (evasive), obscure (faint), opaque, open-ended, problematic, uncertain (ambiguous), unclear, undecided, undefinable, unspecified
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.Uncertain; unclear; not clearly defined or stated.n.vagueness
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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Imprecise; uncertain; indefinite.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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Imprecise; uncertain; indefinite.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.