Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sketchy or slight manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sketchy or incomplete manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
sketchy manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a sketchy incomplete manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, that, very briefly and very sketchily, is something of the problem that faces the people of Saskatchewan.
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That, very sketchily, is what the Movement is, but I think it is relevant to quote what other people say about us, and far better to quote what other people say than what we say.
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Eight players stood awkwardly and sketchily in front of the counter of a convenience store one block from the school.
Michael Evans: One Season to Go: Surveillance, Again Michael Evans 2011
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Even the people who matter to him most are sketchily drawn, while others are almost laughable caricatures, including a friend's saucy cheating wife, purred by Kim Cattrall.
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Eight players stood awkwardly and sketchily in front of the counter of a convenience store one block from the school.
Michael Evans: One Season to Go: Surveillance, Again Michael Evans 2011
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He did it sketchily, with casual tentativeness, so that when it was found among the papers there would be no suspicions.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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The taxes are so sketchily defined that even those paid by independent contractors such as outside lawyers and accountants could be included.
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Also it's not a very creative book: ominous mists and fogs, sketchily done Roma, bereft doctor/husband carving up other women after his wife etc.etc. etc.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway alecaustin 2009
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The taxes are so sketchily defined that even those paid by independent contractors such as outside lawyers and accountants could be included.
Salem debates Paulson income tax giveaway this morning (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The reason for this reanimation is only sketchily handled by Romero, which was a good call at the time because it contributed to the sheer horror of the concept.
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