ill-defined

How To Use ill-defined In A Sentence

• Up to this contact with Price, and indeed for some time after, I had regarded group selection as so ill-defined, so woolly in the uses made by its proponents, and so generally powerless against selection at the individual and genic levels, that the idea might as well be omitted from the toolkit of a working evolutionist. David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks
• It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined.
• Is schizophrenia a group of ill-defined syndromes, or is it a true nosological entity? The Mad Among Us
• They pass the time in a hazy half-light, drifting from one ill-defined moment to the next in works deeply suspicious of form and language.
• Radiographic examination revealed an ill-defined radiolucent lesion at the joint area of the previous bone graft and the right mandibular angle.
• They were the sort of conflicts that frequently flare up along any ill-defined border which is straddled by farming communities.
• The press has questioned the government's right to cite ill-defined "public interest" as an excuse for knocking down homes.
• By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench.
• The party also supports an ill-defined criminalisation of verbal attacks on national "holies". Slackbastard
• Orth epidermoid cyst; or, according to Warren, a form of cyst made up of skin containing small and ill-defined papillae, but rich in hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine