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ambiguous

If something is ambiguous, it has more than one possible meaning, state, or explanation. I think he fills his speeches with ambiguous words on purpose. The goal of the challenge remains rather ambiguous.

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(= equivocal) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead an equivocal statement the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness popularity is an equivocal crown an equivocal response to an embarrassing question having more than one possible meaning ambiguous words frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference ambiguous inkblots

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Simple sentences

This time, the exam was not just difficult, but also, the questions were ambiguous.
This sentence is still ambiguous, even though it isn't long.
Bill Clinton spoke in ambiguous language when asked to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
The meaning of this sentence is ambiguous.
Our words are potentially ambiguous.
An ambiguous sentence is very difficult to translate.
This is relative and ambiguous.
This sentence is ambiguous.
What an ambiguous expression!
The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.
Ambiguous phrases often beget funny interpretations.
Ambiguous phrases in general lead to amusing interpretations.
One may add matres lectionis when the word could be ambiguous, but surely it is not obligatory.
It's ambiguous.

Movie subtitles

Well, the situation's a little ambiguous.
You will join the ranks of those women of ambiguous position who travel about Europe from one watering place to another neither married nor unmarried, with no future and no present with only your great love to sustain you.
I don't like ambiguous situations.
His ambiguous figure, his sensuality, disgusted me.
Deuteronomy is ambiguous!
Well, actually, Kirk, as a defender of the free-enterprise system, I found myself in a rather ambiguous conflict, as a matter of principle.
Yes, thanks to a little help from my father. Your ambiguous friend and ambiguous enemy.
Yes, his ambiguous conscience merged with my pure existence.
I'm not like you. I don't like things fuzzy and vague and ambiguous.
He cannot be ambiguous.
But art is ambiguous.
And music, the most ambiguous of all the arts.
That's quite ambiguous.
It's not diffiicult to predict for this story of mine biased, ambiguous and scandalized judgments.
Your ambiguous friend and ambiguous enemy.
Nothing this ambiguous has ever happened to me.
To obtain less ambiguous results, I must do an abominable thing.
I don't like things fuzzy and vague and ambiguous.
They wrote back ambiguous letters then sent the tickets.
The whole thing's very ambiguous.
She was being rather ambiguous.
Trusting friendship - unconditional, but at the same time ambiguous.
I had something more ambiguous in mind.
There is nothing ambiguous or wasted, for me, in my days.
The results are tantalizing, annoying provocative, stimulating and deeply ambiguous.
Or be scattered about an estate. as ambiguous evidence. of an obscure allegory.
About Livio, so ambiguous.
An ambiguous guy! Really ambiguous!

News and current affairs

In the United Kingdom, recent survey results are ambiguous.
Such an ambiguous declaration can be interpreted either as active support for the Russian police or as passive collaboration.
But Microsoft's ambiguous - at best - behavior is part of a pattern.
Then there is the more ambiguous process of assessing the benefits, which, though difficult to quantify, are convincing enough that many economists champion early education.
This is the reason Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was cautious in her reaction to the Saudis' ambiguous acceptance of their invitation to attend the conference.
In the short run, the answer is ambiguous, because more money is leaking out of the country even as the economy slows.
But even the US Constitution is ambiguous about the powers of Congress and the president in foreign policy.
Beyond semantics lies the more consequential, but equally ambiguous, question of the international community's role and responsibility.
The relationship between the United Nations and the human-rights movement has always been ambiguous.
The meaning of a drug-aided victory is ambiguous and elusive even for the athlete.
The likely outcome - in typical European, consensus-driven fashion - will be to forgo deadlines and concrete targets in favor of an ambiguous, open-ended pledge to undertake further pension reform.
Yet the EU's strategy towards Ukraine has been ambiguous and obscure.
The French must now resolve their own ambiguous attitudes about Europe, which have affected national policies for decades.
CAMBRIDGE - Many people find economic growth to be a morally ambiguous goal - palatable, they would argue, only if it is broadly shared and environmentally sustainable.
Beneath the headlines of the historic deal lies a limited and ambiguous agreement.
They reflect changing investor psychology, which is hard to discern, and new information, which may still be amorphous and ambiguous.
In the case of Brazil, the answer appears ambiguous, at least at first glance.
China's real, long-term intentions are not entirely obvious, and maybe that's part of its strategy: ambiguous signals play an important role in diplomacy.
Understanding the intentions of Iran's leaders is not as difficult or as ambiguous as some believe.

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