sketchy
adjective, sketch·i·er, sketch·i·est.
- unreliable or unsafe: That street looks pretty sketchy.
- disreputable or shady: I'd stay away from him; he's got a sketchy past.
Origin of sketchy
Related Words for sketchy
superficial, inadequate, perfunctory, preliminary, insufficient, faulty, cursory, vague, skimpy, coarse, crude, defective, imperfect, introductory, outline, shallow, slight, uncritical, unfinished, scrappyExamples from the Web for sketchy
Contemporary Examples of sketchy
And it is conjecture, based on the sketchy bits of evidence we possess.
And former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod dismissed it as “sketchy.”
While reports are sketchy, there were likely tens of thousands of Iraqi security forces of all types in and around Mosul.
The image, with all of its sketchy lines and minimal color palette, had to be rendered in a matter of seconds.
While driving, listening to the first sketchy news reports, hot tears were streaming down my face.
Historical Examples of sketchy
I can't swear to any of these things; they're sketchy impressions.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
The sketchy nephew hinted that he might have fallen off a bridge.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
It is a phrase that recurs at intervals in his sketchy "Confessions."
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
He could just write a kind of sketchy hand, and didn't care for writing at all.
YouthJoseph Conrad
She is too young to endure it, sobbed the by-product to her of the sketchy face.
IoleRobert W. Chambers