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- adjective Alternative spelling of
unfocused .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of an image) not being in or brought into focus
- adjective not concentrated at one point or upon one objective
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Examples
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Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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If you don't make a specific request, the responses you get will be general and unfocussed.
John Paul Caponigro: Ways To Give More Useful Feedback Online John Paul Caponigro 2011
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They said the course was too unstructured, the discussions too unfocussed, they spent too much time planning and arranging, there was not enough connection between the aims of the university and the course.
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If you don't make a specific request, the responses you get will be general and unfocussed.
John Paul Caponigro: Ways To Give More Useful Feedback Online John Paul Caponigro 2011
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The Netherlands were all energy from the start, but Honduras deep defence had the game under control, soaking up the somewhat unfocussed Dutch pressure and counter-attacking swiftly and effectively.
Pop World Cup 2010: First Quarter Final – Netherlands 1 Honduras 3 | FreakyTrigger 2010
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Grey v-neck, no sleeves, grey shirt, dark shorts with the hems fraying a fringe over his skinny white legs, knee-socks sloughing down towards his ankles, and a blinking unfocussed look on his friendly freckled face.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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At Art Basel Miami Beach every work competed for attention and the results were unfocussed visual overload.
David Coggins: The Furthest State: Elemental Satisfactions of 2010. David Coggins 2011
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At Art Basel Miami Beach every work competed for attention and the results were unfocussed visual overload.
David Coggins: The Furthest State: Elemental Satisfactions of 2010. David Coggins 2011
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Grey v-neck, no sleeves, grey shirt, dark shorts with the hems fraying a fringe over his skinny white legs, knee-socks sloughing down towards his ankles, and a blinking unfocussed look on his friendly freckled face.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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The Army turned him from an unfocussed man and boy in to a very principled one.
Iraq withdrawal: how a soldier's mother is coping with the loss of her son 2011
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