Sentence examples for ambiguous adjective from inspiring English sources

Later, an intimate natural garden was added (in the strict Japanese horticultural tradition, natural is a slightly ambiguous adjective, meaning "pruned to look unpruned").

(This tragedy is, indeed, famous for expressing a kind of astonished wonder at what human beings are capable of, accomplishments for which Sophocles uses the ambiguous adjective "deina," which means both "terrible" and "wonderful" — "awesome," maybe, in the original sense of that word).

Trying to help a table select a wine, a waiter offered two ambiguous adjectives: "fleshy" and "funky".

The overall effect is ambiguous and spellbinding, adjectives that apply virtually throughout Blackstar.

What we said: "You're struck by the sense of Bowie at his most commanding, twisting a genre to suit his own ends … The overall effect is ambiguous and spellbinding, adjectives that apply virtually throughout Blackstar.

Like Alfred Hitchcock's (and, for that matter, like Jean-Luc Godard's), his name has been turned into an adjective of somewhat ambiguous meaning.

(The verb and adjective forms are similarly ambiguous).

The use of adjectives makes the answers ambiguous.

For example, statements including the verbs 'deposit' or 'submit' are likely to be non-ambiguous, compared with statements using the adjective phrase 'available'available

"Woodland wild" is a little ambiguous: is a comma missing between two adjectives, or is there an unwritten hyphen, suggesting a comparison, wild as woodland?

The CRIS de-identification algorithm is not designed to distinguish ambiguous names from real names; for example, adjectives or nouns that could also be names would be de-identified (e.g. the word 'mark' would be de-identified alongside the name 'Mark').