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

Examples of gray area in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Under what's known as the Shared Responsibility Model, such situations often sit in the gray area between what a cloud platform provider should address for its customers and what users need to be in charge of managing themselves. —Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2024

Emily in Paris season 4 part 1 will leave viewers hanging out in the gray area after several big plot twists, or trompe l’oeuils. —Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2024

Legalizing street vendors, as the state did on Jan. 1, 2023, has left them in a legal gray area with local jurisdictions. —Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024

The decision appears to clear up what had previously been something of a gray area in terms of union coverage. —Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024