loosely term
Frequency: 5.00.5 per million words
to call something by a name that is only approximately correct
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- 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.