sketchable
Americanadjective
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He was a nice dog, but not very sketchable.
From The Twins in the South by Whitehill, Dorothy
The windows looked out on a paintable series of backyards: on a sketchable huddle of old, stained, leaning wooden houses.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
The structure in question—very sketchable, if the sketcher could get far enough away from it—is an elaborate little dusky façade, overhanging the street, ornamented with panels of stone, which are covered with delicate Renaissance sculpture.
From Hospital Sketches by Peabody, Robert Swain
Such vagueness has overtaken them, for the most part, and to such a thin reverberation have they shrunk, the persons and the affairs which were then so intensely sketchable.
From Picture and Text 1893 by James, Henry
It was especially sketchable, and "bits" of it were carried away in many an artist's portfolio.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
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