gray area

noun

: an area or situation in which it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong

There are no gray areas in the rules.

a legal gray area

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These maneuvers occupy something of a legal gray area, lawyers say, but are roundly condemned in the cryptosphere as ethically dubious at the least. —

Joel Khalili, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024 The two men square off with verbal arguments regarding the acre’s worth of gray area between right and wrong, and while Crowe’s character has righteousness on his side, Washington’s gangster has both the gift of gab and a knack for knocking such simplistic notions into the dirt. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024 And what are the characteristics of objects that straddle this gray area between planets and stars? —

Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024 What a fun moral and legal gray area that will certainly not blow up in anyone’s face! —

Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gray area