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[ skech-ee ] / ˈskɛtʃ i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sketchy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, sketch·i·er, sketch·i·est.like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. imperfect, incomplete, slight, or superficial: a sketchy meal. Informal. - unreliable or unsafe: That street looks pretty sketchy.
- disreputable or shady: I'd stay away from him; he's got a sketchy past.
Origin of sketchyFirst recorded in 1795–1805; sketch + -y1 SYNONYMS FOR sketchy1 cursory, rough, meager, crude. SEE SYNONYMS FOR sketchy ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM sketchysketch·i·ly, adverbsketch·i·ness, nounWords nearby sketchysketch, sketchable, sketchbook, sketch map, sketchpad, sketchy, skete, skeuomorph, skew, skew arch, skewback Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sketchyAnd it is conjecture, based on the sketchy bits of evidence we possess. Is Brooklyn Becoming Unsafe for Gays? It Depends On Which Ones|Jay Michaelson|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST And former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod dismissed it as “sketchy.” Rick Perry's PAC Pulls a 'Free Winona'|Olivia Nuzzi|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST While reports are sketchy, there were likely tens of thousands of Iraqi security forces of all types in and around Mosul. Iraq Is Vietnam 2.0 And U.S. Drones Won’t Solve The Problem|Leslie H. Gelb|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST The image, with all of its sketchy lines and minimal color palette, had to be rendered in a matter of seconds. O.J., Martha, Jagger, and Manson: Capturing Celebrities in the Dock|Justin Jones|May 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
While driving, listening to the first sketchy news reports, hot tears were streaming down my face. Frazier Glenn Miller Would Kill Every Jew Like Me|Hampton Stevens|April 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST She dashed into the crude and sketchy character bold strokes of Nature and illuminative gleams of genius, all her own. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859|Various Above a washstand hung a Swiss etching of the Matterhorn, a sketchy rendering. When the Owl Cries|Paul Bartlett He sings in a sketchy way all the year round, but in spring has a fuller unbroken song, emitted with more power and passion. Birds in Town and Village|W. H. Hudson I like very much the Chinese rice-papers with their broad, sketchy decorations of birds and flowers. The House in Good Taste|Elsie de Wolfe He adopted a sort of sketchy fashion; his figures became silhouettes and quite flat. Pickwickian Manners and Customs|Percy Fitzgerald
British Dictionary definitions for sketchy
adjective sketchier or sketchiestcharacteristic of a sketch; existing only in outline superficial or slight informal uncertain or unreliable Derived forms of sketchysketchily, adverbsketchiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sketchysuperficial, inadequate, perfunctory, preliminary, insufficient, faulty, cursory, vague, skimpy, coarse, crude, defective, imperfect, introductory, outline, shallow, slight, uncritical, unfinished, scrappy |