sketchy
adjective
like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials.
sketchiness
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a word derived from
sketchy.
Example Sentences
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Directors love Wagner’s operas, which infuse the suggestive sketchiness of parables into clearly conceived plots and characters.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Maybe it was that all the other teams at legitimate academic institutions such as DeMatha are willing to sign up to play Bishop Sycamore, no matter its sketchiness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
"All four of them have different levels of sketchiness."
From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2020
Whatever the film has to say about the sketchiness of modern financial wheeling and dealing remains frustratingly non-specific.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
Her search is less thorough than the maid's but there is a touch of fury in it, that quite makes up for its sketchiness.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
