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vague

/veɪɡ/ verb C2
  1. To become vague or act in a vague manner.
  2. To make vague negative comments publicly; to make highly veiled complaints or insults. (intransitive)

He/she/it vagues · Past vagued · Past participle vagued · -ing form vaguing

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Verb forms

Base form
vague
He/she/it
vagues
Past
vagued
Past participle
vagued
-ing form
vaguing

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“Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 90 · B2
She had a genius for friendship; girl friends she had in plenty; but she had a vague consciousness that masculine friendship might also be a good thing to round out one’s conceptions of companionship and furnish broader standpoints of judgment and comparison.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 298 · C1
He could see that she was vastly impressed by this vague talk, so he endorsed his pose by random insinuations concerning great wealth, and mentioned familiarly a few names that are handled reverently by the proletariat.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 31 · C1
There were, as he had said, marks upon the bed, but they were hopelessly blurred and vague.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 86 · B2

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