impreciseness

I dare say there was some regrettable impreciseness in the fairy's magic.

"I will begin," Jonathon said, "and you must excuse my impreciseness of expression.

"The chairman and the senior staff noticed that there was probably, in some programs, some impreciseness between amounts of grants and artistic ranking.

His shoulders lifted at the impreciseness of his answer as he finished the last of his notes and retracted the tip of his ballpoint pen with a sharp click.

The Eighth Circuit upheld his conviction five years later on the grounds that "[a]bsent fundamental ambiguity or impreciseness in the questioning, the meaning and truthfulness of the declarant's answer is for the jury."

Also, DialIdol has been criticized for its impreciseness in ranking the contestants; however, the program's creator has asserted that DialIdol "was never designed to get the results slot for slot right", and stresses that DialIdol is "for entertainment purposes only".

A Deliberate Impreciseness The deliberately imprecise declaration, and other contradictions between what the King says and his advisers are saying, appear designed to demonstrate to the West Bank and Gaza populations that the P.L.O. is severely handicapped in the ways it can assist their lives.

The impreciseness of the paraphrase of this as I know that I know nothing stems from the fact that the author is not saying that he does not know anything but means instead that one cannot know anything with absolute certainty but can feel confident about certain things.

It is unlikely that a borrowed word would undergo a significant change in form so quickly and, with hindsight, it is more likely that an impreciseness of meaning caused by unfamiliarity should attend the bringing into vogue of a word amongst those who did not have a dialect memory of it.