ambiguous, but all the better for that.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
Happily Gladstone, though ambiguous in one sentence as to the importance of the vote, was not so in others-or at all events was understood to mean "stand or fall."
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
He read it again, more slowly this time; and here and there, in an oddly twisted sentence or an ambiguous phrase, he caught a hint that the writer of the Sphere's article entertained a secret doubt of the Phantom's guilt.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon