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grey area

NOUN
  1. an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

How To Use grey area In A Sentence

  • That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
  • 135 There is a grey area between ornament and decoration where one or other strives to compensate for poverty of form.
  • Some have a forlorn and battered remnant of a house or two, but they are mostly mere grey areas of flattened stone. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't care what anyone says, you cannot be a dummy if you have won the European Championship, even although he did it with top German players, but in Scotland there are no grey areas.
  • This left a grey area in which common sense might be applied. Times, Sunday Times
  • For veteran IM Banks readers there are a lot of allusions to his Culture novels and their themes, and you will re-encounter Diziet Sma's arguments with Zakalwe about the "morality of intervention vs non-intervention" from Use of Weapons, or GCU's Grey Area' sense of justice and its implacable execution from Excession as well as quite a few other similar tidbits. Archive 2009-09-01
  • They lie in a grey area between conductors and insulators whose boundaries are somewhat unclear, and it is this ambiguity itself that is useful.
  • There are of course grey areas; the Founding Fathers might have written the Constitution to allow flag burning but doing so in the name of inciting a riot, and destroying public property and peace in the process, would cross the line. Charles Gasparino: Mayor Bloomberg, What Took You So Long?
  • The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
  • There is no grey area when we train. Times, Sunday Times
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