sketchy
IPA: skˈɛtʃi
adjective
- Roughly or hastily laid out; intended for later refinement.
- Not thorough or detailed.
- Resembling a comedy sketch, of sketch quality.
- (Canada, US, slang) Of questionable or doubtful quality.
- (Canada, US, slang, of a person) Suspected of taking part in illicit or dishonorable dealings.
- (Canada, US, slang, of a person) Disturbing or unnerving, often in such a way that others may suspect them of intending physical or sexual harm or harassment.
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Examples of "sketchy" in Sentences
- The plans are sketchy.
- Everything to the west is sketchy.
- Details of the difficulties are sketchy.
- As far as details go, they remain sketchy at most.
- Details of the events of the actual battle are sketchy.
- Also, the last paragraph is deep, abstruse and sketchy.
- After this, details on the fate of the tomb are sketchy.
- But some of the sourcing looks suspiciously sketchy to me.
- It failed the review because some of the references looked sketchy.
- The source was sketchy and didn't even substantiate the claim made.
- Data on the exact purpose of the placenta extract is sketchy and hard to find.
- Some of the details of the proposed reforms remain sketchy, and those details are important.
- Regulation either requires more cops, which are an expensive kind of work force, or automated systems, which are sketchy from a legal point of view.
- Pretty Little Liars' new guy Caleb has been described as a "sketchy guy with a heart of gold," but after last week's episode it seems he just may be the former.
- She gave him an anti-inflammatory called Deremaxx (which I'm pretty sure is the brand of condom they sell in sketchy gas station men's rooms) and told him to take it easy for a week.
- In one particularly interesting example, we see him reconstruct a massive Roman temple, the Temple of Fortune, but in sketchy form, with "how they did it" merging with "how I'd do it."
- The details remain sketchy as, by that time, both his mother and grandmother were dead, both having taken their secret to the grave, and Nicholson subsequently had next-to-no contact with his real father.
- Much has been said about this critic as a peculiarly powerful teacher, but de Man's influence on academic literary and cultural criticism far exceeds the limits of an identifiable school or clique, and often manifests itself in sketchy and unacknowledged fashion within scholarly work that may not desire (or even know that it has) a filiation to de Manian rhetorical reading.