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Meanings of inexactly in English

In an imprecise manner.

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Examples for "imprecisely"
Examples for "imprecisely"
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With the result that he was bound to express himself rather imprecisely.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
2
The results all get a little bigger but are more imprecisely estimated.
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
3
Must have been machined imprecisely, he thought, or maybe my bit's worn down.
Winter’s Tale
4
He is that most imprecisely defined creature- asociopath ,yes
Dark rivers of the heart
5
She tossed the staff back to me, imprecisely, and I fumbled it for a second and nearly dropped it.
Skin Game
Usage of inexactly in English
1
From the technical standpoint these tests were relatively unsatisfactory because only inexactly describable.
The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behav...
2
A good deal which we are accustomed inexactly to call description is really exposition.
The Art of Public Speaking
3
Thus he gets a certain way toward the correct result, but very crudely and inexactly.
The Story of the Mind
4
I lost it a little bit and said, "How about inexactly?"
Man in the Middle
5
It moved forward quickly, turning inexactly and trundling as fast as its ageing treads would move.
Perdido Street Station
6
Portions of it might have been transmitted inexactly.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
7
He spoke and wrote French, English, and German, inelegantly, it is true, and inexactly, but fluently and intelligibly.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
8
Sparks quotes 57, but inexactly, and with his usual literary manipulation; these were reprinted (1886, 16°) by W.O.
George Washington's Rules of Civility / Traced to their Sources ...
Inexactly through the time