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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vaguely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mildly/vaguely amusing (=a little amusing, but not very)
▪ a mildly amusing spectacle
remember vaguely/dimly (=not well)
▪ He could vaguely remember his mother’s face.
vaguely familiar
▪ Her face seems vaguely familiar, but I can’t quite place her.
vaguely (=slightly)
▪ I heard a weird sound vaguely resembling the bark of a dog.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
▪ I was vaguely aware that my death was imminent.
▪ I was vaguely aware that some of the people in the gym were hungry.
▪ Trembling and a little afraid, she gently struggled, vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room.
▪ I was vaguely aware that junior was trying to persuade the others to do something.
▪ He was vaguely aware that he was driving rather better than usual.
▪ I was vaguely aware of Oluf.
▪ He was vaguely aware of some of his own Dalwolsey men, led by Wattie Kerr, at his back.
▪ I was vaguely aware that Olympia &038; York was involved in property.
familiar
▪ She began to feel vaguely familiar with the names of drinks and their prices.
▪ His voice, warm and slightly drunk, sounded vaguely familiar.
▪ Although the old Victorian building with its spine of hutted wards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.
▪ The voice on the other end of the line was vaguely familiar.
▪ The young man had seemed vaguely familiar.
▪ Her face was vaguely familiar, and Floyd suddenly became aware that the Administrator was looking at him with a quizzical smile.
▪ The other was of a man, plumpish and vaguely familiar.
■ VERB
define
▪ She was right on the other side of the shower door, her plump form vaguely defined through the milky glass.
feel
▪ She began to feel vaguely familiar with the names of drinks and their prices.
▪ Lying in the speeding police van, Gao Yang felt vaguely motion. sick.
▪ She felt vaguely flattered, it was odd.
▪ Although he felt vaguely sorry for Bill.
▪ He felt vaguely sorry for Fergus.
▪ He felt vaguely depressed and lost.
▪ Because I felt vaguely grateful, I've been nice to him.
▪ She often made me feel vaguely guilty, as if I'd forgotten to clean my teeth or was wearing a grubby shirt.
know
▪ She knew vaguely what to expect.
▪ I vaguely knew his wife - I even liked her.
▪ We know vaguely what she means, but we do not feel it for ourselves.
look
▪ Even Ted, who refuses to dance at home, is up and doing something that looks vaguely like the Mashed Potato.
▪ She even thought he looked vaguely familiar, but then she realised it must be the type that seemed familiar.
▪ Now that I looked at her I could see that Mrs McCue looked vaguely familiar.
▪ I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped, lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction.
recall
▪ I vaguely recall writing down the codes months ago and losing whatever it was I wrote them on.
▪ I vaguely recall something from long, long ago that involves cuddling by the fire.
▪ I vaguely recall making an Airfix kit of that thing when I was a kid.
▪ Well, I can still vaguely recall being taken to the hospital where my father was dying.
▪ I vaguely recall the event, but I didn't take much notice.
▪ I vaguely recalled that Amin had named one of his sons after him.
remember
▪ I can vaguely remember my first day at school.
▪ She could vaguely remember Annabel and Miranda's visit, but Clare hadn't come.
▪ He remembers vaguely about all this from when he was living in the country.
▪ She could vaguely remember her mother bathing her, but mostly she recalled her grandmother's strong arms.
▪ I seem to vaguely remember you gave me some directions last time.
seem
▪ At other times her minimalist approach seems vaguely stilted, and even her immensely watchable face can't carry the day.
▪ The young man had seemed vaguely familiar.
▪ All of this made him seem vaguely anarchic beside the bishop.
▪ It drew alongside her, a pale blue Renault that seemed vaguely familiar.
▪ It's Hallowe'en and the city seems vaguely unhinged.
think
▪ Hadn't she seen something like this once before? she thought vaguely.
▪ How strange, she thought vaguely.
▪ When it actually came to writing rather than vaguely thinking about his address, Henry found it more difficult than he had expected.
▪ But that was all right, she thought vaguely.
wonder
▪ Arthur wondered vaguely what kind of job the man could have which let him take so much time off.
▪ He wondered vaguely if he had strength to steam off stamps at this late point in his life.
▪ Charles wondered vaguely if the old man had recognized him.
▪ He wondered vaguely about going back to Mrs Short's boarding house and getting a pen and paper.
word
▪ A final warning ought not to be worded vaguely.
▪ But he said the order was vaguely worded.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Audrey smiled vaguely at the ceiling.
▪ Her face is vaguely familiar.
▪ I found the whole situation vaguely upsetting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dazed Fourth Aunt lay in bed, vaguely aware that some one was tugging on her arm.
▪ He remained too personally committed to the values of the Council and to a certain vaguely liberal spirit.
▪ I vaguely recall something from long, long ago that involves cuddling by the fire.
▪ Sheldukher angled the disrupter vaguely in the direction of the huddled mass of Chelonians and fired indiscriminately.
▪ Well, I didn't want to take it, because I was vaguely thinking of my amateur status.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaguely

Vaguely \Vague"ly\, adv. In a vague manner.

What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak.
--Hawthorne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vaguely

1748, from vague + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
vaguely

adv. 1 In a vague manner. 2 Loosely; more or less; somewhat.

WordNet
vaguely

adv. in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: mistily]

Usage examples of "vaguely".

I remarked their English accents and listened vaguely to their conversation.

Daphne coaxed Rackford into dancing with her, vaguely aware of Acer Loring off to the side, scowling at them right along with her, for he had been enamored of Daphne for ages.

Vaguely sensing a contradiction, he then exempts his own global-theorizing stance from having any adaptive value.

Lawson chewed a piece of adobo and washed this down with a swig of the vaguely bitter Cruz del Campo beer.

This material was another strictly non-Mesklinite product, a piece of molecular architecture vaguely analogous to zeolite in structure, which adsorbed hydrogen on the inner walls of its structural channels and, within a wide temperature range, maintained an equilibrium partial pressure with the gas which was compatible with Mesklinite metabolic needs.

He vaguely remembered that Clodius Afer had said something about wine as the Main Gallery lowered itself after the assembly, and then the two of them had gone off after a bead of orange light.

The anchorite had shown Cale several alphabets, including the odd letters she had said were Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Cyrillic, as well as the Asian ideographic systems, but nothing in any of her books had even vaguely resembled these figures.

They seemed vaguely familiar to Angelique and she felt strangely drawn to the locket.

He wondered, vaguely, if some radiation from the Arthen Stone was causing this effect.

Necronomicon, in those parts which Wilbur had sought so avidly, seemed to supply new and terrible clues to the nature, methods, and desires of the strange evil so vaguely threatening this planet.

I complained about his tendency to weigh his story down with vast wads of bafflegab and infodump and strain for vaguely poetic sound bites.

Ralph Bales mentioned, vaguely, unions and shipping companies and waterfront services and Teamsters.

He was vaguely aware that Hobart Batt was staring at him with renewed alarm, but he could not deal with him now.

I vaguely knew that he was the black sheep younger son of a titled Irish family, and that he had walked many strange ways.

Fassin was vaguely aware of it as the pressure on his chest and flesh and limbs faded away over the course of a few seconds, replacing that feeling of oppression with a sensation of sudden blood-roaring bloatedness as his body struggled to cope with the change.