adverb
definition
In a vague manner.
example
He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
definition
Loosely; more or less; somewhat.
Examples of vaguely in a Sentence
I vaguely remember him as the resident nerd.
She vaguely recognized the blond boy.
She thought she vaguely remembered seeing the farmer's market before.
Vaguely, she heard someone on the porch and recognized the quick steps.
He was vaguely familiar, his gaze intense.
Vaguely she was aware of someone entering the lobby.
Vaguely she heard Cade close his book and cross the room.
Vaguely, she was aware when Alex lay the book aside and left Jonathan.
She rubbed her lumbar area, vaguely aware of the pain that riding was causing.
She led them into Kris.s room again and slammed the door, vaguely pissed at the Ancient for having the only door that locked in the whole castle.
But the bulk of his work consisted in imparting scientific definiteness to what was already vaguely known, and in demolishing the errors of his predecessors.
I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.
Dean vaguely remembered the eternity before voices above called his name and rescuers gracefully dropped down next to him.
But he modifies his Nominalism so as to approach, though somewhat vaguely, to the position of Aristotle himself.
Vaguely, she was aware of the cool shadow world followed by the warmth of indoors.
I influence others without choosing sides, he said vaguely.
The offer met with no response, Austria having received from the allies vaguely alluring offers that she might arrange matters as she desired in Italy and South Germany.
Thus in the Elohist and in Deuteronomy the date of the festival is only vaguely stated to be in the month of Abib, while in the Holiness Code and in the Priestly History the exact date is given.
In Gregory of Tours this word is still used vaguely, but the sense of it is gradually defined, and finally the name of Austria or Austrasia was given to the easternmost part of the Frankish kingdom.
She fell into the in-between place, only vaguely aware of his panicked
The Greek words for reason are vous and X6yos, both vaguely used.
The term, however, will have to be used still more vaguely, if it is to cover all attribution of personality, will or vitality.
However, portion sizes are vaguely described, and the importance of total calories in relation to a person's body weight is absent.
The heroine is vaguely threatened by spooky happenings in the labyrinthine mansion, but the menace never seems to be resolved.
One arm looped around her and she braced herself against his chest, vaguely realizing that --by not refusing him the day before --he'd taken her response as a blank check.
The appeal is to experience, somewhat vaguely defined, as against all authority, to the book of nature and no other.
Although a bishop was appointed by the pope for the vaguely defined territory of Florida so early as 1528, the oldest Catholic community in what is now the United States dates from 1565, when the Spanish colony of St Augustine was founded.
But very little came of the revival of learning which Charles is supposed to have encouraged; and the empire he restored was accepted by the medieval intellect in a crudely theological and vaguely mystical spirit.
To determine the validity of these claims, which had been complicated by transfers and subdivisions, and to fix their boundaries, which were often very vaguely described, proved a very formidable undertaking; and the slow process of confirmation greatly retarded the development of the Territory.
That Zeno and Cleanthes crudely compared this presentation to the impression which a seal bears upon wax, with protuberances and indentations, while Chrysippus more prudently determined it vaguely as an occult modification or " mode " of mind, is an interesting but not intrinsically important detail But the mind is no mere passive recipient of impressions from without, in the view of the Stoics.
It has been frequently asserted that the image of a calf is kept in a niche, and traces of phallic and gynaecocratic worship have been vaguely suspected; but there is no authentic information in support of either statement.
Or the theology which religion contains is in Theology a state of solution - vaguely defined and suffused and with emotion; important practically, but intellectu- Religion.
As regards moral sentiments generally, the view suggested by Mill is more definitely given by the chief living representative of the associationist school, Alexander Bain; by whom the distinctive characteristics of conscience are traced to " education under government or authority," though prudence, disinterested sympathy and other emotions combine to swell the mass of feeling vaguely denoted by the term moral.
The practical distinction in modern society is necessarily one of degree, and both "individualism" and "socialism" are very vaguely used, and generally as terms of reproach by opponents.
Jule Transported himself to the Black God's compound, vaguely aware of Xander's presence.
Hope you don't mind " At least he sounded vaguely apologetic.
I vaguely remembered being in the kitchen, making a casserole.
But second track ' Easy Path ' lays down Seafood's real plan of action; vaguely folky melodies which suddenly go bang!
In actual fact, cruising round the streets of a cold, sunny Stockholm afternoon, the Cadillac XLR looks vaguely futuristic in design.
They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely Goth leanings.
Even the name is vaguely onomatopoeic and sounds somehow indecent.
In Greece the idea of a fundamental unity behind the plurality of phenomena was present, though vaguely, in the minds of the early physicists (see Ionian School), but the first thinker who focussed the problem clearly was Xenophanes.
Republic Commando - a vaguely tactical first-person shooter - is one such expansion of that Universe.
If you are even vaguely familiar with the Chinese language, you know that it is comprised of characters, and these characters literally number into the thousands.
Each pattern vaguely resembles a topographic map or oil slick.
Felice vaguely wondered if he was an actor who put on shows about the inn's heyday in the roaring twenties.
As with a lot of the Miss Sixty line, the Jaiden has a look that vaguely recalls the 1970s, mixing retro style with modern flair.
Some vaguely sane part of her mind protested that it was a cowardly thing to do, but panic had the upper hand.
He vaguely anticipates the modern idea of the world as a survival of the fittest when he says that many races may have lived and died out, and that those which still exist have been protected either by craft, courage or speed.
At the proper age young More was sent to Oxford, where he is said vaguely to have had Colet, Grocyn and Linacre for his tutors.