A master services agreement with vague scope, undefined terms, weak service levels, or unclear liability, leaving significant questions to be argued later.

Used after the fact by whichever side the ambiguity now disadvantages, when the vagueness was frequently visible at signing and accepted by both parties who wanted the deal closed that quarter.

• Retrospective Blame: "Sloppy" almost always means "not in my favor today."
• Deliberate Fog: Ambiguity that both sides saw and left in, because pinning it down would have delayed signature.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like agreeing to split the bills fairly, never saying what fairly means, and calling the flatmate sloppy nine months later.

Selling Sunset (Season 3) where agents argue bitterly over a commission split nobody wrote down clearly at the start, each insisting the original wording obviously meant their version.

A vendor contract with vague scope or liability terms that get argued about later.

“The incumbent's sloppy vendor MSA created material exposure across the engagement.”

“The contract never defined what counted as an outage, so we spent six weeks arguing about the credit.”