What is "sketchy"

Usage examples of "sketchy".

The background, the quays, the Seine, whence arose the triumphal point of the Cite, still remained in a sketchy state--masterly, however, but as if the painter had been afraid of spoiling the Paris of his dream by giving it greater finish.

The potatoes were still unplanted and his admittedly sketchy efforts to locate a pick-planter and someone to operate it had so far met With failure.

The chemo left me so foggy that my memory of that time is sketchy, but what I do know for sure is that at my sickest, I started to beat the thing.

It was only then that Zephyr realized - with her sketchy knowledge of the roots of the Greek-based Citizen Classnames - that of course Strategos was a blend-word, the old name for a general, now carrying the new weight of later derivations: strategic adviser, battle tactician, master planner.

She answered noncommittally to begin with, but after a time, when he had given her a more than sketchy history of a particularly interesting pair of cassolettes in one of the bedrooms, she turned to face him.

If the sketchy star map among which the paths are entwined is on the scale he thinks, the routes shown can take them into regions in the immediate neighborhood of the Second Sphere -- and for kiloparsecs beyond it.

In consequence she had overslept, so that she had had to hurry over her dressing and sketchy breakfast, attend to Podge and then hurry through the streets to the Underground.

Loguisse and the other Vrya had lived here, even sketchier when it came to the hapless Vrithli used by the undying as toys to enliven the endless march of days.

He gave us the sketchiest of acknowledgements before turning back to the tank.

We only have the sketchiest idea of the internal situation in the bunker.

But the promise of what could follow had robbed him of all but the sketchiest of sleep.

It was one of the paradoxes of their relationship that he, the sometime ape, had been educated in the great myths of the world by Fletcher, while she, the professional storyteller, had only the sketchiest knowledge of the subject.

I took a few sketchy breaths and remembered with bathos that I needed a telephone if I were ever to move from that spot.

On the long drive home, it occurred to her that the sketchy description of the suspect Chucky had provided could fit a lot of people.

That, Deudermont knew, was the source of Robillard's sneering attitude concerning this port, though the wizard had been sketchy in his explanations, making a few offhand remarks about the "idiots" running the Hosttower and their inability to discern a true wizardly master from a conniving trickster.