loosely term

Frequency: 5.00.5 per million words

to call something by a name that is only approximately correct

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Examples (10)

  • We could loosely term this a 'project', though it's more of a hobby.
  • Some might loosely term his ideas as revolutionary.
  • The critics loosely termed the new genre 'post-modern punk'.
  • She hesitated to loosely term it a friendship, as it was purely professional.
  • If we loosely term all these activities as 'exercise', we'd be incorrect.
  • He refused to loosely term the incident a "misunderstanding".
  • The group was loosely termed an alliance, but had no formal structure.
  • You could loosely term her influence as significant, though hard to quantify.
  • Historians often loosely term this period 'The Dark Ages'.
  • It would be an oversimplification to loosely term their relationship a rivalry.