sketchy
adjective
like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials.
sketchier
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comparativeof sketchy.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Omicron’s impact is difficult to gauge in other parts of the world, where data are often sketchier.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2022
Getting there requires one of the sketchier boot-packs I’ve ever done, along an icy, knife-edge ridge where the prospect of a catastrophic fall looms large.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
But it is also about the narrative of a community in rapid flux: amid the upheaval, is a free apartment a glitch from the sketchier past, something to be rectified in the name of progress?
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
But for loved ones caught up the wake, navigating is even sketchier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
Naturally, Europe and its many loops were well-defined, but farther afield things got sketchier.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
