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
This film is reminiscent of black-light posters and underground comics — though the overall approach is more innocent and hopeful than sketchily “adult.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Although only sketchily literate, he scored a high-normal IQ of 121 while in prison.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017
We learn that there were many courthouses in seventeenth-century Virginia, like that of 1690 in Northampton County, which is sketchily described as having one exterior chimney and as being twenty-five feet long.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
