In addition to making a paper difficult to read by the larger scientific community, imprecise phrasing or improper word use can lead to misinterpretations of the authors' intent or meaning.
Or was she using the term as a general (and purposefully imprecise) catchall phrase for "not straight"?
Wallison says it's unacceptable, politically motivated, and imprecise to use the phrase "Wall Street" as if it referred to the controlling financial interests of the United States.
We took dictation for Bob's e-mails, nudged him to respond to invitations and queries, memorized the list of words and phrases that he found too imprecise or jargonish to allow into the Review: "context," "scenario," "key," "in terms of," "on the table".
The article is not easy to read since phrasing is often vague and imprecise.
Chastising imprecise speakers of English, C. S. Lewis modified the phrase as follows: "Let no one say, and say it to your shame / That there was meaning here before you came".
However, it should be stressed that the phrase "inheritance of acquired characters" is substantially imprecise in that Lamarck and his followers were very particular about adaptive (beneficial, useful) not just any acquired traits being inherited.
They hate the phrase "illegal immigrant," which they see as loaded, imprecise, insensitive and fuel for immigrant-bashing.
If you want to emphasise Australia's ideals, then there is no better phrase than True Blue: an indistinct, nebulous and imprecise term that can apply to anything you want it to.
The phrase "probably ate something" is oddly fuzzy, the kind of imprecise notion that a child might have about what cats do when they are unwatched.
