sketchy
adjective
like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials.
sketchily
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a word derived from
sketchy.
Example Sentences
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While some critics dismissed the records as grandiloquent and sketchily produced, we embraced their quirky storytelling and spontaneous energy.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2022
Geopolitical competition among colonial rivals England, Spain and America to map and claim possession of the sketchily charted Pacific Northwest coast approached a high-water mark.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
He remembers those years as a string of sketchily improvised celebrations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
One of the catastrophes sketchily outlined by Gunderson is an accusation that arose in the press that raised ethical questions about the Ebola investigations by Wolfe’s team in West Africa in the mid-2010s.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2021
It is entitled L’Adultère Innocent; but the comic underplot is very sketchily analyzed, scene by scene, and the whole is very mediocre withal.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Montague Summers
