Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being sketchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
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- noun The property of being
sketchy .
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- noun incompleteness of details
Etymologies
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Examples
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Was Lilian's difficulty in recognizing drawings due simply to their "sketchiness," their two-dimensionality, their poverty of information?
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Was Lilian's difficulty in recognizing drawings due simply to their "sketchiness," their two-dimensionality, their poverty of information?
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Additionally, as this is my first complete read-through of Sense and Sensibility, my only impressions of Colonel Brandon have been from the Emma Thompson movie, where Alan Rickman gives him panache and a serious degree of not-sketchiness and dignity that the original character perhaps does not deserve.
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Additionally, as this is my first complete read-through of Sense and Sensibility, my only impressions of Colonel Brandon have been from the Emma Thompson movie, where Alan Rickman gives him panache and a serious degree of not-sketchiness and dignity that the original character perhaps does not deserve.
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The sketchiness of an individual is measured, like the skewness of any given real-valued variable, by the combination of several dimensions of behavior -- communication based on technicality, obfuscation, ambiguity, tonality, diversion, digression, and ratio of chocolate chips to dough.
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The sketchiness of an individual is measured, like the skewness of any given real-valued variable, by the combination of several dimensions of behavior.
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Dismissing the marginal sketchiness within the rhetoric of "influencers" leads us as citizens to sometimes elect unethical people, support biased news networks and buy unsafe products.
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Of course, the smoking gun tapes that proved his sketchiness were recorded on June 23, 1972.
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Of course, the definitive question of "where does sketchiness lie?" is answered by the difference between the normal distribution of clarity and honesty made and expected by the average American vs. the distribution of the same by "influencers".
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Of course, the smoking gun tapes that proved his sketchiness were recorded on June 23, 1972.
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