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Ambiguous

adjective

Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead. Synonym: equivocal. "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. "Frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"

Having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns. "Ambiguous inkblots"

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"Ambiguous" Quotes from Famous Books

... woman to read the unspoken thought! Courtenay and Christobal and Tollemache need not have striven to couch their warnings in ambiguous words. Elsie could have told them all that was left unsaid at breakfast. The ship had fought her own enemies; now the human beings she had saved must defend themselves from a foe against ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

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... telling what the defendant's attorney told me. He has taken up the case with zeal and interest. Aside from some ambiguous lines which this young man wrote to a young woman before departing for Europe, they have found no proof to sustain the accusation. In these few lines, the officers saw a plan and threat ...

— Friars and Filipinos - An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, - 'Noli Me Tangere.' • Jose Rizal

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... way." Then, still with her heap of gold in her lap and something of the pride of it in her manner of holding her head, she continued not to move—she only smiled at him. The evening had thickened now; the scattered lamps were red; the Park, all before them, was full of obscure and ambiguous life; there were other couples on other benches whom it was impossible not to see, yet at whom it was impossible to look. "But I've walked so much out of my way with you only just to show you that—that"—with this she paused; it was not after all so easy ...

— In the Cage • Henry James

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... Zeno returned ambiguous answers, which seemed to leave the question as to the legitimacy of Odovacar's rule an open one. The Senate were sharply rebuked for having acquiesced in the dethronement of Nepos, and a previous Emperor who had been sent to them from the East.[50] ...

— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin

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... propriety, nay, the necessity, of communicating with Fitzgerald. The difficulty is in what tone I should address him. I cannot say that the man directly affronted me—I cannot recollect any one expression which I could lay hold upon as offensive—but his language was ambiguous, and admitted frequently of the most insulting construction, and his manner throughout was insupportably domineering. I know it impressed me with the idea that he presumed upon his reputation as a DEAD SHOT, and that would ...

— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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