Vague used in a sentence

Vague in a sentence as an adjective

A lot of people got the vague idea of a GNU project.

As usual, vague terms like "90% accuracy" are thrown around without specifying what exactly they mean.

Why do HN mods keep changing the title from meaningful ones, which make the reader interested in the content, to generic, vague ones?

Notability is an extremely vague standard, a perfect recipe for abuse and selective enforcement.

Whereas, vague and nonspecific generalities are more difficult to criticize.

While I'm not claiming that the US is currently close to totalitarianism, there are some comparisons that have become quite disturbing:1. A regime that justifies itself by claiming to protect the populace from a vague but grave danger.

Broder's being vague in his wordings - he phrases it as if they approved him to unplug when they might have just said to plug it in for about an hour when they were trying to find him the plugin station ahead of time.

Eric writes using vague generalizations about age and experience; Linus writes with specifics about his experience with the kernel.

So... it's perfectly ok to publish tons of linkbaits about 'how steve jobs changed my life' even if they are vague and repetitive boring opinions, but nobody can state his negative views on this occasion.

Everything in that report was couched in passive voice and dressed in self-important language - to a point where you had no idea who had done what but had only a vague sense that this or that "had transpired" with this or that result "having ensued.

I can still knock together a shell script, tail -f a logfile and pipe it through grep, get some vague clue about why something crashed by casting my eye over a Java exception error, and make a lazy developer deeply uncomfortable when he realises that - would you believe it!

Besides, if something like that ever becomes a problem, a better response would be a prohibition on self-promotion or some other clear guideline, rather than a vague requirement of notability.- If these deletionists are just being OCD and wanting everything to be tidy and clean and under their editorial control, I would say that they need to take a break.

All of these standards can be applied fairly strictly, and with much less vagueness than notability.- It's not like Wikipedia is short of disk space to store a few million extra text articles.- The argument that it would be too difficult to maintain lots of extra articles is also weak, because not every article needs to be regularly edited, and more articles on niche topics might actually attract more editors.- No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat.