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- adjective not successful in describing
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Examples
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The term public option, he said, "is a vague, bland, undescriptive phrase," and that after all, "who would be against a public park?"
Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Echo GOP Talking Point About Public Option The Huffington Post 2010
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The term public option, he said, "is a vague, bland, undescriptive phrase," and that after all, "who would be against a public park?"
Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Echo GOP Talking Point About Public Option In Health Care Coverage The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It is not a bad word, not undescriptive, but it has no explanatory power.
Diary of a Bad Year Coetzee, J.M. 2007
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There's the monumentally undescriptive title, of course, which sounds like something you need to fix your bathroom faucet.
E-Ring: What If They Had A War and Nobody Watched? - Tuned In - TIME.com 2005
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It's also a very undescriptive word if you think about it: one Snarkling's Mahnolo Blahnik is another Snarkling's Birkenstock.
VogueOStick Miss Snark 2005
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I mean, she actually makes me think, "Boy, I want that undescriptive mug she forces herself to clean every morning."
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The alchemists expressed their conceptions in what seems to us a crude, inconsistent, and very undescriptive language.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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Why this undescriptive phrase should be applied to every well-attended dance, with a supper, has always perplexed us; for, of course, every one really judges it by his or her own personal success and enjoyment, not unfrequently incompatible with that of some one else.
Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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The vagueness of the general conceptions of alchemy, and the attribution of ethical qualities to material things by the alchemists, necessarily led to the employment of a language which is inexact, undescriptive, and unsuggestive to modern ears.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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The dog's name was undescriptive of his person, which was obviously the result of a singular series of mesalliances.
Penrod 1914
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