vago
= dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], fuzzy, vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], feeble, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], slacker, wooly, bum, indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous, lazybones, layabout.
Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
Ex: This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.
Ex: Some of the terms are vague.
Ex: Mearns warns us, "Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble".
Ex: Kast points out that there is a "rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches" in this developing field.
Ex: The article is entitled "No slackers here: SLA's youngest members have the vision and enthusiasm to shape the profession".
Ex: On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.
Ex: Although the results provide support for the "drunken bum" theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.
Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
Ex: The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.
Ex: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.
Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.
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* persona vaga y mal vestida = slob.