• IPA: /ˈveɪɡli/

vaguely

1. In a vague manner.

   He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.

   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Badge_of_Courage_(1895)/Chapter_10#105 page 105]:

     The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied.

2. Loosely; more or less; somewhat.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

• French: vaguement
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