vague suggestion

collocation in English

meaningsofvagueandsuggestion

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vague
adjective
uk
/veɪɡ/us
/veɪɡ/
not clearly expressed, known, described, ...
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suggestion
noun[C or U]
uk
/səˈdʒes.tʃən/us
/səˈdʒes.tʃən/
an idea, plan, or action that is suggested or the act of ...
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(Definition ofvagueandsuggestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvague suggestion

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This is avaguesuggestion, and provides no form of alternative, and therefore we cannot accept it.
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There was somevaguesuggestionof a threat.
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They carried with them avaguesuggestionof authority.
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It may be avaguesuggestion, but it is a high ideal, and it must be possible.
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There exists this delightfullyvaguesuggestionthat there could be a pilot scheme to promote social responsibility in children.
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There is avaguesuggestionthat one warder was injured.
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I thought that was rather a dangerous andvaguesuggestion, but possibly it was rather like the pools assessments that we had a week ago from a panel of experts.
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I want to say quite frankly, that on this matter and on the subject of the vesting date our deliberations have been tinged with just avaguesuggestionof unreality.
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I should not have thought that it was acceptable to have such an extraordinarilyvaguesuggestionof anywhere between three and 300 persons whose names may be on the list.
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We need a little more than the vague suggestions that have been made.
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Apart from him, we have only had vague suggestions.
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We are not making vague suggestions and promises.
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Let us have no more of these vague suggestions of what may be done, of what it is hoped to do.
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I shall merely put forward a few rather general and, perhaps he may think, vague suggestions.
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There have been certain vague suggestions about controls.
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It is not enough to make vague suggestions.
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He made some very vague suggestions which did not appear to me to have much value.
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There have been vague suggestions of a tendering scheme.
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I am referring only to the vague suggestions which he held out of further preparations about which we were considerably sceptical.
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