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

Experts have described Musk's sweepstakes as falling into a legal gray area. —Avery Lotz, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024

As Slipping Away enters the public consciousness, Heidecker once again doubles-down that his new music has no correlation to his history of absurdist bits (unlike his 2017 protest-meets-parody album, Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker’s Trump Songs, which arguably existed in the gray area). —Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

But the contest falls into a legal gray area and could potentially violate election law, according to interviews with several election law experts. —David Ingram, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024

Now, the law will allow any business in the state to follow the same model without falling into a legal gray area. —Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024