There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.